Digging Stick (uncertain)

Tapering from a thick, rounded, blunt point to a slender short handle with octagonal section. Some powdery reddish earth has been left clinging to the point. See Kramer, Die Samoa-Inseln, II, p. 128, fig. 42 f. The example figured cannot be much longer than this, to judge from other objects to the same plate. In Edge-Partington's Album, I-II, p. 104, fig. 19, is shown a missile stick of similar shape, 25 in. long, of a type used by the mountaineers of Viti Levu (Fiji). 29-58-128 has not quite the appearance and type of finish of the similar missile sticks of N. Territory, Australia.