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Wallace 1989 found a fernroot beater, a maul and a teka made from Libocedrus spp. among museum artefacts he tested. Libocedrus is a light wood but increases its density when wet. Maul found waterlogged in a swamp. May have been kept wet to increase its usefulness (ibid: 226)