ISO SOME PREHISTORIC ARTEFACTS FROM NEW GUINEA 
Superficially the implement resembles the obsidian flake 
spearheads from the island of Manus. It has, however, been 
made in quite a different way. In the Manus spearheads the 
primary flakes are all struck from the same direction (i.e., 
from the base, towards the point). In this case, the flake 
from which the implement is made has been struck from the 
direction of the base, as have also flakes A and B, in Fig. 7b, 
but flakes C and D have been struck from the opposite 
direction. 
This implement is the only known example of hammer- 
dressed obsidian. 
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Description of Plate VI 
1. Stone Bird, Wahgi Valley, Territory of New Guinea. 
2. Stone Axe, Bougainville Island. 
Brown, Prior, Anderson Pty. Ltd., 430 Little Bourke St., Melbourne, C.l. 
