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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Papua canoe, axe/adze etc. While smaller shell hoes were used to clear gardens and prepare areas for planting, heavier, hafted stone axes and adzes (emoa) were used for felling timber or for cutting and scraping wood. Landtman (1927: 33) was emphatic that the origin of all stone used by all coastal Papuan peoples was the Torres Strait, as the only naturally occurring stone along the southwest coast is the granitic outcrop of Mabudawan, and he wrote: According to what I was told at Mawata, the Torres Strait Islanders obtained the stones out of which axes (or adzes) and club-heads were made principally from the bottom of the sea, by diving. The diver had a long rope attached underneath one shoulder, by which his companions in the canoe helped him up to the surface when loaded with a heavy stone. The shaping of the stone was effected by a hammer stone and the grinding by means of a somewhat softer stone (Landtman 1933: 45). However, Haddon, on a later visit to Yam Island in 1914, was shown an isolated place in the bush called Konakan where large stone slabs with deep depressions, used as grinding stones for the manufacture of stone implements, were seen and photographed (Haddon 1935, I: Plate I, figures 1 and 2, and Plate II, figure 1). The stone slabs at Konakan may still be seen today and, according to the present day Yam Islanders, were places where the heads of stone axes (gabagaba) were ground. Emoa@Torres Straits Isl.: hafted stone axe/adze Gabagaba@Yam Isl.: ground stone axe/adze head http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p57271/pdf/ch0417.pdf Provisional confirmation of antiquity of adze & canoe making in Papua region. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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