108 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
the anchorage of gum is applied. This spare head and the com- 
plete club are attributed to the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain of the 
Bismarck Archipelago, and this attribution is confirmed by Parkinson 
(Dreissig Jahre, p. 112, Tafel 8, fig. 9) with the name palau. ‘These 
clubs, he comments, are held by the coast-dwellers in association with 
magical rites as something old and of a somewhat alien culture. Their 
provenience is assigned to the Baining folk of the mountainous interior, 
and in type they look rather toward the Sulka and O Mengen of the 
Nakanai coast west of the Gazelle Peninsula, on the north coast of the 
island. 
In the case of the ball-headed ula we have had to have recourse to 
the method of extrapolation in presenting the probability of a source 
of the wooden weapon in stone culture. When we take up the wheel 
and patterned head-types of ula we have ample confirmation in the 
pieces figured in Plate V, figures 13-20. In figures 7-12 we present two 
of each of these more advanced types in such aspect as will make patent 
the essential details. We find a shaft, a head variously worked in two 
styles, a ring, and a knob at the distal extremity. The head may very 
properly be regarded as metamorphic upon the worked-stone head 
which we have just been considering; the ring and knob are ornament 
without sense in the art of the wooden club. In the Baining palau 
(fig. 18) we may readily dissect out the structural detail. The drilled 
stone being prepared, the clubwright must mount it upon its handle in 
order that it may be made into a weapon of utility. He prepares a 
stick of such diameter as to admit the possibility of sliding the stone 
disk over it to a point where it will satisfactorily engage with the wood. 
At this point, the distance being governed by the length normal to the 
type of club, he carves the stick into a cone attaining a diameter by a 
certain amount larger than the perforation of the stone. He sets the 
stone home by driving the distal end sharply upon a fixed rock, exactly 
as a navvy seats his pick-axe on a handle by utilizing the same princi- 
ple. The pick-axe is a utensil of peaceful industry; no harm is done if 
the head works loose; it can readily be reseated with no more serious 
result than a brief and never unwelcome loss of time. The club is 
intended for uses in which the delay of reseating would obviously be 
fatal; accordingly, the head must be anchored with gum, and the germ 
of the art sense finds manifestation in the shell or tooth ornamenta- 
tion. We see in the Baining palau as a structural necessity the dis- 
tal knob, which remains as a conventional ornament in the two ula 
species now under conjoint examination; the ring at the point of union 
of the distal knob and the head, an element which suggests a narrow 
plane surface, most probably types the ring of ornament inserted in 
the gum anchor. 
At this point, for greater convenience, we shall continue our study 
of the clubs in the lowest tier of Plate V. Figure 19, a wooden club 
