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siderable difference in the treatment of the design in general, notably 
the absence of the side-pieces which so largely characterize the drawings 
with the semicircular head. ‘The circular head is, of course, the merest 
convention and establishes no distinction based upon this form. ‘The 
quadrant head is the work of a single artist in its three occurrences, and 
the same is the case with the four occurrences of the two oval heads; 
this variety, therefore, is to be ascribed to individual taste. 
The arc above the head is problematic. ‘The only things with which 
I am at all familiar in head-ornament in island life which occupy this 
position are three. One is the large turban of white bast cloth worn by 
Fijian watriors, one the decorative headpiece of the Samoans compacted 
of hair and ornament, one the impromptu employment of one side of 
the tip of the coconut-leaf slit down the stalk and tied around the head 
from the crown to the occiput in such way as to cause the leaflets to 
stand forth like rays. The Samoan headpiece is marked in the front 
by colored sticks, which also give the radiant effect. Any explanation 
based upon these matters can be made to apply only with the greatest 
difficulty to figures 110 and 112, in which the arc, or parts thereof, 
extends beyond the region of the head, and not at all to figures 114 and 
115, in which it is held in the hands exactly as is a skipping-rope. 
The neck is represented in four ways, as in this list, the long neck 
being peculiarly distinct, and where there is no neck at all we find two 
groups, in which the head is attached directly to the shoulders, and in 
which it is detached therefrom by a slight blank space. 
Short: Nos. 98, 99, I0O8—-III, I14, 115, 118-120, 123-125, 138, 139, 142, 143. 
Long: Nos. 100-104, 136. 
None, head attached: Nos. 105, 109, 110, 112, 113, I16, 117, 121, 126, 128, 141, 
145, 146. 
None, head detached: Nos. 106, 107, 122, 129-135, 140, I4I, 144. 
Side-pieces: Nos. 100-104, 122, 135, 137. 
Here the interest rests particularly upon those additions to the neck 
which from their position I have listed as the side-pieces. ‘They are 
represented as distinct from the column of the neck, but as persisting 
in the space between head and shoulders. They occur in all but one of 
the figures with long necks and but three times outside of that group; 
in all but one of the long-necked figures they are presented in pairs, 
probably paired in 122, but in 135 a and 137 they are represented bya 
band above the shoulders, short in one case, shoulder-wide in the other. 
It seems quite safe to interpret these marks as symbolic of the necklace 
of whale-teeth, the Samoan uwlalez. 
The next point of distinction is the line of the shoulders. In so many 
instances this tract is portrayed by a horizontal line that it has not 
seemed necessary to list that treatment, but only its variants: 
V-shoulder: Nos. 100-104, 115, 132, 133. 
Upward curve: No. 144. 
None: No. 129. 
Extra joint: Nos. 100, 112-114, 120-122, 126, 128, 129, 141, 145. 
