DIMENSIONS AND STRUCTURAL DETAILS. 99 
A talavalu from Samoa (3788) and a crescent club from Tonga 
(2500) have circular grip and become rhomboid near the head. 
A rootstock from Tonga (3175) and an ula (2465) are circular and 
hexagonal at these two points. 
Three Fijian rootstocks are circular at the grip and develop flat 
planes near the head in alternation with the flanges of the head; these 
are 2482, 3100, and 3782 a. 
In certain types of club one or more angles persist either from a 
recollection of the original article conventionalized in the club form, 
as the lapalapa from the angled coconut leafstalk, or ribs or angles, 
which are specific in the head form, extend more or less down the shaft, 
as in the carinate, the crescent, and the serrated types. In general, 
these angles are smoothed out in the final finish of the piece when it 
is rubbed down with shagreen or abrasive stone, or if they are allowed 
to remain they are smoothed off in the grip for convenience in hand- 
ling. These are noted in the following memoranda: 
Lapalapa: 
Angles persistent throughout, 2270, 3172 @, 3172 0, 2277. 
Angles stop at grip, 2280, 2281, 2278. 
Angles stop near head, 2276. 
Crescent: 
Angles persistent throughout, 2263, 3186 d. 
Carinate: 
Angles stop at grip, 2284, 2499. 
Serrated: 
Angles persistent throughout, 3791 c. 
Angles stop near head, 3790 0, 3790 a@ 2497. 
The billets are the only clubs in which it is possible to study the 
difference between haft and head dimensions with anything like the 
detail which has been possible in the increment from the grip to the 
haft-end, whether as flange or knob. The moment of such increment 
in circumference, by inches and fractions, appears in table 46. 
TABLE 46. 
pocrement Piece No. pose ut Piece No. 
(inches). (inches). 
I 3177, 2491, 2488, 2489, 3100 B, Dae 3184, 3780 € 
3100 4, 3780 C, 3147 3 2265 
1.25 3780 a 4 2267 
1.5 2492, 2490, 3780 d, 2493, 3780 4.5 3185 
2 3186, 3144 AndS 3143 
225 3147 @ 


There seems to be no connection between these forms and the source 
of the pieces, and the increment does not at all correlate with the 
length of the weapon. 
In all other types the head is little related with the shaft, and in the 
head variety there would be no profit in comparison of dimensions; yet 
