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fact that 110 obsidian occurs between them make relationship 
extremely improbable. The Easter Island spearheads are 
certainly chipped from both front and back, but they are of 
crude workmanship and extremely simple form. A tang is 
formed on a flake by the simple method of making two 
Fig. 7. (a) Obsidian Implement, Talasea, New Britain. 
(b) Obsidian Point, Lihir Island. 
notches on its side. Although it is fundamentally the same, 
the technique employed cannot be compared with the skilled 
workmanship of the Yodda Valley axe and the other examples 
described herein. 
Obsidian Point 
From Lihir Island. National Museum, Melbourne. Peg. 
No. 43305. Fig. 7b. 
Wlien the obsidian hook described above was found. Father 
Neuhaus asked the natives to look out for any similar arti- 
facts. Shortly afterwards a native brought to him an 
obsidian point whicli had been found in a river not very far 
(about half an hour’s walk) from the place where the hook 
was discovered. 
The implement is made from a flake. The base end has 
been shaped to a roughly oval section by hammer dressing. 
The base has been fractured, probably after manufacture, as 
the hammer dressing goes right up to the edge of the fracture. 
