98 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
The increase in the proportion in Fiji is not to be taken as critical of 
that culture; it results from the paucity of the lug in that archipelago. 
Fiji supplies a perforation that is found nowhere else, the inverted V; 
in this, two holes are drilled from the side of the haft toward its end 
and at such an angle that they meet and issue from the end as one; 
that the drilling is in the direction stated is established by the wla 
3786, in which one hole has been completed and a second hole has been 
started on the side of the haft to meet it. Fiji also affords two 
instances of the perforation of the shaft diametrically, undoubtedly 
a foreign contamination. 
The purpose of the perforation is apparent from observation in the 
field and from the several museum specimens which still retain an 
original becket of sennit. This becket was solely for the purpose of 
suspension of the weapon; it partook in no sort of the nature of the 
sword-knot designed to be caught over the wrist as a protection 
against disarmament. 
The single specimen from Niué, uluhelu, 18094, is of a peculiarly 
interesting haft type. Outside of the grip the haft-end is a cone of 
9 inches length and diameter of a quarter inch at the tip, which evenly 
increases to a circumference of 4 inches at the base, and there is finished 
off with a raised ring of 5.5 inches circumference, and immediately 
follows the grip with a sharp reduction to a circumference of 3.5 inches. 
It is manifest that this haft-end serves no end of utility, except that 
the raised ring gives security against a possible attempt at disarma- 
ment by pulling; as we have noted in the case of the flange and knobs, 
the cone is purely decorative. We find nothing at all like this in 
Nuclear Polynesia, but the motive is frequent in the club culture of 
Melanesia and may be recognized in Parkinson’s “ Dreissig Jahre,”’ 
from the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain (p. 112), from the Sulka 
and O Mengen (p. 229) of the same island—an interesting fact when 
we note that the shape of the blade is found in the Solomon Islands 
at San Cristoval (Revue d’Ethnographie, 1885; L. Verguet, Arossi; 
Cr tigss 1320, 030) 
The shafts of clubs offer less variety in treatment. In general they 
are cylindrical, with certain varieties of girth at various parts of length, 
as will appear on consideration of the record of dimensions. 
A cross-section generally oval appears in a few pieces, all of Fijian 
provenience, as listed: billet, 2488, 3184; axe-bit, 2478, 3361, 3362; 
serrated, 2496, 3790 D. 
Hexagonal section is found in 2 mushroom clubs from Samoa, 3789 
and A 15743. 
The Tongan paddle clubs have generally a circular section at the grip, 
becoming oval as the blade is approached; the same is seen in the 
dancing paddle from Fiji, 2501. 
Two maces from Samoa, 3792 and 3792 ¢, are circular at the grip 
and become square near the head. 
