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714 ' MALEKULA
cylinders which are of coiled ware, and this decorated fragment,
which may be of coiled or modelled ware, show clearly that in days
gone by two distinct types of pottery were known and perhaps made
in Malekula. We may, indeed, probably be sure that the jars and
cylinders were of local manufacture, for they are so coarse and so
ill-baked that they crack and crumble readily, and it is not likely
therefore that they could have been imported from neighbouring
islands.
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