CLUBS AND PESTLES. 



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Stone club heads are common enough in other groups, especially in the western 

 Pacific where the Solomon islanders make very elaborate short clubs with a round un- 

 pierced stone head concealed within basket work. The wooden handle is often elabo- 

 ratel}- inlaid with pearl shell. The New Guinea men make the well-known spherical 

 club heads fastened to the stick with gum in which are imbedded small shells or 

 squares of pearl shell. Dr. Giglioli has described these clubs in a learned and com- 

 plete essay.* The neighboring inhabitants of the Bismarck Archipelago make heads 

 of various forms as shown in Fig. 20. 

 ^\\& golcgolc (No. 157 1 ) is rare, but 

 the star-shaped forms are more com- 

 mon and show great care and patience 

 on the part of the maker. It should 

 be noted that this last form is now fre- 

 quently imitated and with modern tools 

 is not difficult to shape, but the finish 

 will generally betray the work to the 

 initiated. I do not think that this star 

 form has any connec^tion with the stone 

 stars of the Peruyians described by 

 Squier and others. The stone stars 

 described by Whymper as common in 

 Ecuador and figured by hinif have no 

 cylindrical body from which the star 

 arms radiate as in the club heads of the 

 western Pacific. None have more than 

 six rays, and in some these rays are 

 very short. In weight they vary from 

 five to twenty ounces, and while the 

 Ecuadorean stars may have been used ''"^'"'- ' 



as club heads (at least the heavier 

 ones), it is quite as likely they were ornaments or symbols conuecfled with star worship. 

 The disk clubs of the New Caledonians belong to the same class and are usually made 

 of jade, although this is sometimes of the coarsest grade. 



And here I ma^- be permitted to digress so far as to mention the jade working 

 of the Maori and New Caledonian. Greenstone is not found on the Hawaiian islands, 

 hence the material was not described with the Hawaiian stones in the earlier part of 

 this chapter, but in New Zealand, New Caledonia and New Guinea the produces in the 



* Le Mazze con testa sferoidale di pietra della Nuova Brcttagna. dette I'alao. Prof. Knrico H. Giglioli, .\rchi\'io per I.'.\ntropologia 

 e la Ktnologia. Vol. XXVII.. p. 17. Firenze, 1.S97. 



t Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, by Edward Whytnper, p. 269. 



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COMPOUND H.VW.MIAN CLUB. 

 From Kead. 



