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Fig. 5. Types of Hooks used at Nukuor, Caroline Islands. 
(After Finsch, Filers, and Beasley.) 
eacli case the line runs to the right of the hook, as drawn. In 
Nos. 1 and 2 it is attached by binding it along the flat side of 
the hook. 
Only one other obsidian flsh-hook (Fig. 6) is known (9). It 
was found in the interior of the island of Manus, on ground 
that had been cleared of timber. It is of large size (9 x 
inches) and is similar in form to the simple one-piece hooks 
Inches 
Fig. 6. Obsidian Fish-hook, Admiralty Islands. 
From photographs supplied by Dr. Alfred Biihler, Museum fiir Volgerkunde, Basel. 
widely distributed in the Pacific. It has been shaped by 
secondary chipping from both front and back. The back of 
the hook has been formed by a single fracture. 
The only other places in the Pacific where stone fish hooks 
are found are Easter Island and New Zealand. The Easter 
Island hooks were made of a close-grained hard stone, shaped 
by drilling and grinding. Some of them at least, from their 
apparently impracticable form, seem to have been made for 
