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New Caledonian Pottery

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I AM extremely anxious to be informed on a little matter, and you are my only resource. In the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, August, 1893, vol. xxiii. page 90, Mr. J. J. Atkinson describes the making of New Caledonian pottery. The ingenious device of the pebble as a pivot is interesting. But Mr. Atkinson always says he. Do the men make pottery in New Caledonia, or is this a case of what the country school teacher termed the men embracing the women?

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MASON, O. New Caledonian Pottery. Nature 48, 543 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048543b0

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