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Old 14th October 2008, 08:09 PM   #8
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It seems that Palm wood was used in New Britain, New Ireland and other Islands. Strangely in a book I have on the Admiralty Islands the spears are obsidian or ray spine tipped. Does not mean they were exclusively so.
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