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Mataa (Rapa Nui struck stone implement)

Unusually large mataa in Mauŋa Orito obsidian (the type most often used for them) found by me in Haŋa Maihiku and now in the Museo Sebastian Englert. Mataa are believed by many to have been spearheads but were more probably some kind of scraping / cutting too.

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Uploaded on February 9, 2021
Taken on February 8, 2009