ADDITIONS AND ORNAMENT. 133 
In the elegantly executed figure 24 occurs a continuing repetition of the 
diagonal unit with stalk, in which the memory of the coconut base has 
quite vanished. 
As the pinnate coconut-leaf motive has been observed to pass beyond 
nature into more than two diagonal elements, so some instances will be 
found in which but one of these elements remains in areas more or 
less extensively treated with parallel lines. It is only for convenience 
of record that these are listed with the coconut derivatives, for paral- 
lelism is of such frequency in things seen that its use in decoration may 
rest upon a variety of motives. Thus in figure 81 we do no violence to 
interpretation if we regard it as a sky symbol, and following the bird 
clue we may see the same use in the figures 83 to 88. In figure 41 isa 
finely executed unit of fine lines forming a grid. Under the feet of the 
man in figure ror are found vertical lines just below a horizontal bar; 
undoubtedly this associates with the element in figure 104, where the 
two.are united. In figures 106 and 107 a considerable repetition of 
parallel lines seems-in some fashion associated with a burden carried 
over the shoulders or at some distance from the body in the hand; in 
this we must dismiss all idea of numeration by repetition of line; count- 
ing is frequently done by laying down sticks for each unit or for each 
decimal or vigesimal group; but I have never seen it done by marking 
scores, except under the influence of missionary education, and, despite 
the frequent occurrence of writing materials now, that method still 
remains uncommon. 
The use of the dot or fine point in this incised decoration is notably 
rare. In figures 36 and 40 we may see how the dot may arise as a 
degradation product of the fine line of basketry. But the true dot, 
employed as a decorative unit in itself, involves much labor in this 
style of ornament; if the pattern were traced by the incisions nothing 
would be easier than to make a dot, but here, in the essential condition 
of three dimensions, each dot is the point of a cone which must be cut 
down so as to leave the tip clear upon the surface of the piece. Dots 
of this type occur on but two clubs—in figure 27 centrally situated in 
each lozenge of the diapered panel, in figure 41 similarly placed in the 
exterior dentelles of the zigzags and twice in the interior dentelle. I 
can neither recall nor discover any word in the languages of Nuclear 
Polynesia for this ornament; for an incised or punctured dot the people 
employ togitog: made nominal from the verb togi, which describes the 
action of a bird in pecking with the bill, but I am by no means sure that 
any of them has advanced to the point of recognizing in such a point 
upon the surface a picture of the mark of a peck which goes below the 
surface, for the crux lies in the recognition of the pictorial method. 
The triangle as a detail of basketry skeuomorph is extremely com- 
mon on these clubs. We present of one type the triangular panel in 
figures 11 and 37 and the triangular subdivision of the rectangular 
