DIMENSIONS AND STRUCTURAL DETAILS. 87 
to determine who first shall pick his first player—an interesting per- 
sistence of the primitive. This summation now appears in table 37 
with a showing of the club types for each handbreadth. 
This conspectus immediately declares the standard lengths of the 
different types of club. The missile ula lies altogether within a single 
handbreadth. ‘The lipped clubs are standardized in the three hand- 
breadths from 36 to 44 inches, and one of the pieces which lies outside 
the standard is short by no more than a single inch; the other with a 
length of 23 inches is an unusual toy. ‘The billets show a standard 
length within 3 handbreadths just one unit longer—39 to 47 inches— 
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and the rootstocks have the same standard measurement; 6 of the 
billets are under standard with a range of a foot; only 1 of the root- 
stocks falls below and that by no more than a half inch; the one billet 
which exceeds standard does so by but 2 inches. The lapalapa do 
not standardize so accurately; in fact, there seem to be two charac- 
teristic lengths—-one just under our yard, the other some 9g inches 
longer. The paddle clubs correspond to the billet and the rootstock 
in standard length, but while the billet falls short of its standard 
more commonly than overpasses it and the rootstock has the same 
character, the paddles exceed standard far more frequently than they 
come short. 
_ To comprehend these several standards for this type or for that in 
the clubs, we must comprehend the system of measurement employed 
by the clubwrights. Chance is rigid in the affairs of men; we may 
seem to see a fortuitous collection of feet and inches in the use of men 
who know not the foot or its duodecimal portion, who know not its 
