CHAPTER) V: 
ADDITIONS AND ORNAMENT. 
After the club has been worked into its conventional shape it under- 
goes further treatment under the recognition of certain needs in its 
effective utility and of certain almost instinctive feeling for extra 
ornament or for the preservation of certain memorable events with 
which the weapon may have been associated, or a suggested promise, 
the equivalent of a threat, that in no long time it will be associated 
effectively with certain events. These additions to the piece fall into 
two classes. In the first class certain objects are added upon or 
partly into the substance of the club; in the second class by incision 
certain portions of the club substance are removed in accordance with 
some regularity of plan in order to improve the appearance of its 
surface. 
In the first class we are to consider the employment of sennit and 
leaf ties upon the club, of ivory and other inlays into the surface. 
In the second, and much the more complicated, we shall have to devote 
considerable attention to the style of the engraving of these clubs and 
to the amount of the surface of each thus enriched. 
The additions to the clubs are ties of pandanus leaf and of a few 
other materials intended for adornment, and of more or less extensive 
service with sennit intended in part to improve the grip of the weapon. 
Pandanus ties are found on 8 Fijian weapons—billets 3184 and 
2489, rootstocks 2482 and 3783 (Plates II c and V 2), serrated 3790 
and 3187; and in the lipped clubs 3791 a and 3791 0 we find these ties 
set together as a parceling. 
A string of beads derived from foreign intercourse is tied in two 
courses, quite after the customary manner with pandanus, near the 
head of the Fijian rootstock 3782 b (Plate V, 4). In the Fijian root- 
stock 2485 (Plate V, 3) a double tie of twined wire-like rootlets is 
found, the two coils being in opposite directions. In the serrated 
Fijian club 3187 the whole shaft is covered with a complete spiral 
wrapping of nassa shell strung on coir fiber, and the security of this 
somewhat awkward application is effected by a parceling of pandanus 
leaf applied to the wood as a bed upon which to wind the cord of shells. 
The same application, but in this case of bast, is found in 2485, where 
the grip winding is of sennit upon this bed. In 2482 we find pandanus 
ties themselves bedded upon turkey-red calico. 
A singular addition is found in 3100, a Fijian rootstock, where a 
seamless collar of bast enriches the shaft near the grip. This bast 
must have been pounded until its outer and inner attachments with 
the bark and the wood of its sapling were released, then slipped over 
the haft end of the club as far up the shaft as it could be strained, and 
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