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carved shell work has been since described, and some examples 

 figured by Dr. Rudolf Poch, 6 of Vienna 



I think it may now fairly be conceded there is ample evidence 

 of the existence of an extinct, or at any rate former population 

 in Eastern New Guinea, of a highly interesting nature. Although 

 the information to hand is not sufficient to prove the hypothesis, 

 it is possible that this pottery and the buried works of art of the 

 Yodda Valley Goldfield are the productions of one and the same 

 people. 



Poch — Mittl. Anthrop. Gesellsch. Wein, xxxvii., 1907, p.67-71, f. 7 and 8. 



