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artist during the process of manufacture. It is evident that the right hand of the figure was at first designed to rest on the thigh. But this hand was awkwardly changed to the B


B type tiki which was apparently carved with the right hand resting on the thigh. It was later changed to the left side but looks awkward. It has the double tongue of the standard B type.
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position on the breast, and thus a tiki begun in the style of type A was changed to the conventional rendering of type B, to which also the double tongue belongs.