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: E4627

: World Cultures

: stone

: charm

: Plain pebble, flat on one side. Mrs Hadfield: "This stone flat on one side and round on the other. This stone is a taro fetish. It was planted with certain bushes or herbs to cause the taro to grow".

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: New Caledonia, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: New Caledonia, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

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: [Book] Hadfield, E. H. Among the Natives of the Loyalty Islands.

: [Book] Rivers, William H. 1914. The History of the Melanesian Society.