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then allowed to contract into a firm clasp. It is the sole instance in the 
collection of this treatment. 
The employment of sennit will call for inspection mene several 
lines. In some instances its purpose seems to be to afford a better 
handhold, yet in others the grip is left bare and sennit is applied else- 
where. ‘This arrangement is peculiarly marked in three Fijian root- 
stocks, 2482, 3782, and 3782 a, in which the shaft is parceled, the grip 
bare, and between the grip and the end of the haft a wholly orna- 
mental service of sennit. Sennit upon the grip is found on the billet 
2490, the rootstocks 3782 b, 2483, and 2485, all from Fiji, and on the 
Tongan crescent 3186d. Omitting the grip, but extending over the 
shaft sennit is found on the rootstocks 
2482 and 3782, the pandanus 2487, and 
the lipped club 3180, all Fijian. Sennit Fiji. 
parceling is observed on the rootstocks 
2482, 2483, 3782 b, 3782 c, the wla 2469, | sennit..| 23 , a 
and the lipped clubs 3791 a and 3791 | Leaf-tie. 8 O o 
b, all from Fiji, and on the Samoan |'™%°"*| 75 e ‘ 
talavalu 2272 and the lapalapa 2272, 
2274, and 2278. Sennit service is found on the haft of the Fij ijian billet 
3780 a and rootstock 3782 a. Stains upon the polish of pieces serve 
to identify more or less clearly the use of sennit on the Tongan 
billet 3143, the Fijian rootstocks 3782 c, 2479, and 3100, the Samoan 
lapalapa 2276 and 2277, and the Tongan crescent 3186 d. ‘The whole 
shaft of the Fijian lipped club 3186 b is covered with sennit. Kramer 
(Samoa, II, 338) reproduces a Fijian pandanus club in which the 
shaft from grip to bend is covered with some sort of plaited application. 
Another detail of ornament by addition is the use of inlays. The 
material employed is the ivory of the cachalot in 3 Fijian pieces, 3147, 
3782 c, and 3783, and 3 Tongan pieces, 3175, 2262, and 2263; human 
teeth in 3782, 3783, 3784, and 2486, all Fijian; nacre of the pearl 
oyster in the Tongan 1975. ‘These inlays are found in the end of the 
haft in the Fijian billet 3147, and the Tongan paddle 2262 and crescent 
2263; and in the end of the head in 4 Fijian pieces, the rootstock 3782 c, 
the ula 3784, the pandanus 2252 and 2486, and in the Tongan crescent 
2263; and generally about the head in 3 Fijian rootstocks 3175, 3782 ¢, 
and 3783, in the ula 3784, and in the Tongan paddle 1975. 
A brief tabulation of these additions in ornament (table 51) will tell 
its story distinctly. In this it is quite plain that these are characters of 
the Melanesian art of Fiji and in varying degrees have been adopted by 
the Polynesians of Tonga and of Samoa. 
We next pass to the study of the incised ornament, making the note 
that all of the carving of these pieces is intaglio; the club has been 
completely shaped and polished before beginning the decoration. The 
work is altogether free-hand; no guide is employed to assist the artist 
TABLE 51. 
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