100 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
a comparison is possible among the shaft dimensions for different 
head-forms. 
In the rootstock type the shaft and head are regarded as continuous 
in source in the simpler form. The dimensions of shaft at grip and 
at the nearest point to the head give the increments shown in table 47. 
TABLE 47. 
Increment , Increment 
Piece No. 
Piece No. 
(inches). (inches). 
.25 3782 a 2S 2481 
5 3783, 3782 b, 3100, 2482, 3782 Be75 2480 
[25 3303 4, 3782 C, 2479 3.5 2483 
= 3175, 2485, 1974, 2484 

The missile ula presents two types of shaft, which will eventually 
be found charged with significance. All of the ball-headed type and 
almost all of the flange-headed type have shafts which are of uniform 
diameter from haft to head. ‘Two of the latter form, 2465 and 3786, 
show a swelling of the shaft toward the head amounting to 1.75 and 
2.25 inches of circumference increment respectively. I incline to 
regard this as influenced by the form of the next type. All of the type 
with the patterned head show increments: 2466, 0.5 inch; 3188 a, 
1.5 inches, swelling into the pattern of the head; 2461, 1.87 inches; 
3188, 2 inches; 2461 a, 1.25 inches, and a distinct plate at head; 
2462, 2.75 inches, and similar plate. 
TABLE 48. 
Girth Girth Girth 
Piece No. at haft at bend at knob 
(inches). (inches). (inches). 
3182 a 4.5 5.5 6.5 
3183 5 6 6.75 
2252 5.2 6.5 ioe 
3787 5.25 Zc 8 
3182 b 6 9 8 
3182 INO 6.5 6.5 
2486 5 6 6 
2487 4.25 505 5 
The pandanus clubs show clearly a shaft design in various stages of 
execution. In 5 of the clubs it is manifest that at the three distinct 
points of the shaft—the haft, the bend, and the knob—there is intended 
to be an increment of an inch. In the next two the dimensions at 
bend and at knob remain unaltered; in the last there is a slight decrease 
at the knob. These will be apparent on comparison of dimensions at 
the critical points, shown in table 48. 
_ The three axe-bit clubs give these dimensions of shaft: 4 inches, 
5.25 inches at head, flanging to 6.5 inches; 2478, 4.25 inches, flanging 
