128 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
A secondary ornamentation is found in a few instances—chunam 
applied to incised decoration and rubbed to a continuity of surface 
with the polished wood. This is found in a very light and poorly fin- 
ished application in the Fijian rootstock 3782, where it amounts to lit- 
tle more than a coat of whitewash. In the billet 3100 a, of the same 
provenience, a neat but slight use is made of this material. In these 
two, and, in fact, in all instances, the chunam is applied only to the 
head of the piece, probably because it might tend to obliteration if 
employed on surfaces where the hand might exert a pneumatic suction. 
TABLE 53. 
Complete. Flange. Grip. Head. Per cent. 
Fiji: 
Billet iso eee. Si. Malet pay@hvieeane eed 
RoGtstOck) es lee eee sae ca eee 
i. ane eh aR A, cs ee OO eed re 
Pandantsf5 hs ft eee 4 Pree A ee 
Lipped. c. cictdenal neaaeeeee Le eee 
Serrated. pe ois cat Mee ie oe ae he | ee ct AeA ee ae ee 
5 
Tonga: 
Billet oye ss eh 4 I 
ROOtStocK dy, aed aed eo aes eee ee eee 
Lapalapa:) 7... ja, SAD ae eer: SO Ba By ME (hs Peay | aD URN ae 
Paddle......... 7 aed 1k OR ARS oe ee MR Bee A gUR TT eas Nate oO eT OR Bs 
Crescent sca. 20s L. \, ptyaahl abatyld soteot © ah gered oaaenat ea ieee | aca ania Meee oh Dake 
27 I 
Samoa: 
: Lapalapa....... ON ascii \a jal cheat aia’ ige a uC alae latinas be hal ace tT tete hese si mee eg nee 
Serrated $2500. 68). ee ee a ee cee 
Horned 020 oc hue ae ed ete ee eee 
MushT0ogls 3.0201) mieten gate: bee ee ee 
2 I 

We seem to sense a method peculiar to work in this medium, a recog- 
nition of the value of the contrast of the white upon the dark reds and 
blacks of the wood. In the Fijian lipped club 3791 the plain and 
chunamed panels alternate on each face and alternate as between 
faces. In the great Samoan mushroom club ANSP 15743 it is seen that 
on one face once covered generally with chunam an effort has been made 
sedulously to pick out the white from alternate transverse bands of the 
design, and in the horned clubs of the same collection, 15744 and 
14522, a distinct effort at such contrast is evidenced by bands of orna- 
ment in the former and by the broad interspaces of ornament in the 
latter (Plate IV, figs. 6 and 7). | 
Before attempting the detailed examination of the intaglio ornament, 
we should obtain the macroscopic effect of the decoration as a whole. 
Reference should here be made to Plates I, d, f, g; II, a,c, f, g; III, a, 6, 
