102 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
argument in the next chapter. The clubs which without any per- 
adventure are derivative from a strictly wooden source are the fol- 
lowing: the crescent, the billet, the rootstock, the lapalapa, the paddle, 
the serrated, the mushroom, and the carinated; of these the billet 
alone affords any possibility of coordinating the two extremities of 
the same piece. 
These fall into two groups of somewhat unequal numerical value. 
In one, with 8 pieces, the two ends are similar; in the other, with 
14 pieces, they are dissimilar. These are listed in table 49. 
With such diversity in a weapon of such simple form it is clear that 
the variety lacks significance; the only conclusion which we are justi- 
TABLE 50. 
Index. Piece No. Index. Piece No. 
11.9 2257 a T7=5 2271, 2269 
T2285 2258 LSa7 3146, 2261 
13 3174, 1975, 3174 @, 2259 I 3359, 3145, 2260 
14 2264, 3360 0.6 2262 
16 3357+ 3355 0.83 2257 
16.2 2268, 3356 0.87 2256 
16.6 3358 ! 
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fied in drawing is that a marked preference has been shown for the 
domed head. It is interesting to compare with this end-treatment the 
interesting end of the rootstocks, which consists of a well-formed 
cylinder ending in a cone or cut square across and without trace of 
the dome motive. This will arise for consideration in the following 
chapter. 
The crescent, mushroom, and horned clubs have received sufficient 
consideration at their first presentation. We can discover in their 
varied forms no suggestion of origin other than derivation from the 
possibilities of timber. 
The lapalapa at the head-end carry, as already stated, the suggestion 
of the cupping which is found in the natural leaf-stalk from which 
they derive. This character is so fundamental that it is observed in 
rivotthe 17) pieces=-2270, 4228042231 31388 22702275 ani oe 
2277, 2276, 2274, and the interesting 2273, which exhibits the rare 
and imitative unit of a strongly carved band over the middle of the 
cupping. Five pieces lack the cupping and finish with a more or less 
straight edge——3000;) 94972,/13173, 49572) 0,-and 92260, meOne onl 
3178 a—has so far departed from source as to present a domed end. 
The heads of the paddle clubs vary considerably in shape, though 
not at all in design. This form depends upon two factors, the maxi- 
mum width and the distance of that width from the tip of the head. 
