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occurrence of such closely similar designs, shapes, and lugs, as well 

 as marble bowls, here and along the Uloa River is too striking to be 

 fortuitous. 



Only two broken celts were found at site i. One (pi. i6, i) of 

 quartz diorite, consists of a sharp, rounded blade portion. The other 

 (pi. 16, }i) is of dark, polished, green diopside and is also very sharp. 

 One corner of its irregularly shaped blade is broken off. Both blades 

 show signs of usage. 



One complete and two fragmentary polished stone mace heads were 

 found. The first of these (pi. 19, fig. i, h) is very large (8.6 cm in 

 diameter) and heavy. The material is a gabbro. A large central per- 

 foration (4 cm in diameter) is only very slightly smaller at the center 

 than at the two apertures. One fragment, of considerably etched 

 white marble (pi. 19, fig. i, d), is from a star-headed mace or club 

 head. Two points are present, though originally there were five or 

 six. It is 3.3 cm in thickness through the socket hole. This material 

 is not very durable, and the weapon may have had ceremonial or other 

 value. There is one point (pi. 19, fig. i, /) from a similar mace head 

 of the same attractively mottled felspar porphyry material noted in 

 mace heads from cave i, Helena Island. This is a hard mineral, and 

 such a star-headed club would have had practical value as well as 

 esthetic appeal. The piece is 4.2 cm in length and has been cleanly 

 broken off where it joined the central disk of the club head. The 

 occurrence of star-headed clubs here is of interest from the standpoint 

 of distribution. 



CHIPPED STONE 



A number of T-shaped, chipped axes or choppers of diabase were 

 found at various depths in the deposit (pi. 19, fig. 2, (/). These are 

 common artifacts throughout the islands and assume a considerable 

 number of shapes (pi. 19, fig. 2). At site i the majority were of the 

 typical T-shape, but one with a single side blade and another coarse, 

 oval blade of dialjase without a stem were also found. No ground 

 T-shaped axes were found here. No retouched projectile points or 

 knife blades were found, but two small fragments of obsidian prismatic 

 flake knives were noted. Each broken section is about 2 cm long 

 (fig. 15, e,f). 



Besides the occasional conch shells with perforations, which prob- 

 ably served as trumpets, very few pieces of worked shell were found. 

 One thick section of the outer lip of a heavy Pacific coast shell 



