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in reproducing typical forms which he has in mind, yet great uniformity 
is maintained, quite as in the highly conventionalized and stereotyped 
tattooing pattern of the Samoan men. A very few pieces in which the 
ornamentation has not been completed will afford us a glimpse at the 
method of these club-carvers; these are 2286, 2499, 3099, 31004, 
3100 b, 3172, 3182 a, and 3783. 
The investigation may begin by listing for each type of club the point 
at which the ornamentation is applied. | 
TABLE 52. 
Billet: 
Complete. . 
Piece No. 
3184, 31474, 2267, 3144, 
2265, 3177, 3147, 37808, 
2493 
3143 
BAG QE Oop 2491, 24.00, 
3780 d, 3780, 3780 a 
3100 @, 3100 D 
Mace: 
Talavalu: 
Unfinished. 
Lapalapa: 
Complete. . 
Unfinished. 
Unfinished. 
Piece No. 
3792 a, 3792 
3788 
2270,3178 @, 3172 @, 3172.0; 
2266 
3099, 3172 
Paddle: 
BE75,, 2481, -3782:¢, 2480, Complete. .| 2257, 2258, 2256, 2260, 2262, 
1974, 3303 @, 2479, 3100, 3146, 2261, 3145, 3355, 
2482, 3782 a, 2484, 3782 2269, 3359, 3174 4, 3356, 
3783 2271, 1975, 3358, 3360, 
3174, 2259, 2268, 3357 
2468, 2467, 37854, 3785, 
3784, 3786, 2460, 2463, 
B7O4)0, 6, 2400 at. 2466, 
3188 a, 2461, 3188 
Unfinished.| 2257 a, 2264 
Carinated: 
Unfinished.| 2286, 2499 
Crescent: 
Complete. .| 2263 
3183, 2487, 3182, 2252 
3182 a 
Unfinished.| 3182 a 
Lipped: 
14522, 15744 
2495, 2473, 3181 3789, 15743 

When the club ornamentation is summed by the three greater archi- 
pelagoes which go in varying proportions to make up the culture-group 
of Nuclear Polynesia, the most significant results are established. The 
figures in table 53 denote the number of individual pieces; the percent- 
ages are derived from the respective sums as presented in table 52. 
The sennit ornamentation has been extablished as progressive from 
the Fijian into the Proto-Samoan communities; this showing presents a 
reversal of the culture-current. Intaglio ornamentation of the club is 
most highly developed in Tonga, and it is proper to regard that as the 
source of the carving which has gone over into Fiji. We may discover 
other details of interest. Tonga almost uniformly covers its clubs with 
carved decoration and makes each weapon a thing of deadly beauty; in 
Fiji the decoration is most commonly applied to the grip only and sug- 
gests utility rather than esthetics; in Samoa decoration runs appreciably 
to the head. 
