THE DOMINANCE OF TAHITI OVER THE PROVINCE. 



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sums and percentages for all Southeast Polynesia. From this we find 

 that the Rapanui element in Tahiti has its more considerable associa- 

 tion on practically equal terms with Mangareva and the Marquesas; 

 yet in the case of Mangareva the same element was more closely asso- 

 ciated with the Paumotu (53 per cent), and in the case of the Paumotu 

 the closer association was with the Marquesas (86 per cent). The 

 element of Tahiti not found in Rapanui associates most closely with 

 the Paumotu (44 per cent), although the range of variation of the three 



Table 17. 



items is less than half the range of the Rapanui affiliate element; in 

 Mangareva the association is to the same degree (45 per cent) with the 

 Marquesas, but far more strongly accentuated; and in the Paumotu 

 the association is with Tahiti (84 per cent), the percentages showing 

 that the Paumotu derives nearly twice as much from Tahiti as Tahiti 

 from the Paumotu. 



We next tabulate the sums of the identifications for which we can dis- 

 cover no history earlier or later than their provenance in Southeast 

 Polynesia. 



Table 18. 



In the similar compilation of this material in Table 11 on page 88, 

 the two elements in Mangareva were found to have affinity for the 

 Marquesan, Tahiti, and the Pamotu in order, and with close agreement 

 of the percentages. When we pass to Tahiti we find a marked differ- 

 ence : the Rapanui element exhibits affinity toward the Marquesas, 

 Mangareva, and the Paumotu in order, the Paumotu being about twice 

 as remote from the Mangarevan as that from the Marquesas. In the 

 extra-Rapanui element the greater affinity is with the Paumotu, and 

 Mangareva and the Marquesas average about half as much. When we 

 examine the Paumotu we find even more strongly marked this inversion 

 of affinities of the two elements ; its Rapanui element affiliates with the 



