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| | Chauvet - Carved Wooden Objects |
 | | Such wood was, inevitably, a valuable commodity on the island so we would expect that the islanders would have used it to carve objects of, in their eyes, major importance, such as objects associated with their belief system and objects that were of value because they served as sacred archives (tablets or “talking wood”). |
| | Toromiro was a real bush, growing to only seven or eight feet in height and only a few of the branches, which might also be twisted, reached “the thickness of a human thigh” (Cook). |
| | Since he guessed that the reimiro shown in Figure 85 (made, moreover, of toromiro) was the oldest and, in particular, because the heads had been especially well carved, T. Jaussen chose it as the most typical example, among all the ones in his possession, for the drawing in the manuscript that he prepared in 1885. |
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