$2 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
I have felt justified in correcting his attributions. This is not to be 
reckoned against his honesty in collecting and in labeling; it simply 
means that he was not so keen as Voy in suspicion of an object and not 
so zealous in establishing its provenience. The objects collected by 
him were procured by purchase from Oldman, the London dealer in 
ethnica. 
Many pieces appear without further record than that they were 
bought from Oldman, the collector’s name not having been handed 
down with the objects. Oldman had great experience, a clear judg- 
ment in the affairs of the South Sea, and was notably particular in his 
dealings. Of course the attributions which rest solely on the word 
of any dealer are of less weight than those which carry the name of the 
collector; yet of the objects in this collection which are designated 
solely by the name of Oldman there is an interesting group in which 
an added element of reliability is found. It appears from several of 
the labels that at some time not definitely indicated an exhibition was 
held in London of material which might serve to illustrate the work 
of missionaries among the heathen by the showing of articles familiar 
in the life of the peoples to whom they were seeking to bring the light. 
Many of these Oldman objects were contributed for display in that 
exhibition ; some few were accumulated by Oldman from that collection. 
In each case it is fair to assume that they passed under review of mis- 
sionaries who were familiar with the several countries and that wrong 
attributions would thus be corrected. 
Names of collectors less frequently appearing in the museum records 
are L. Myers through Oldman, Huston, Donaldson, Rust, and James 
Kingsbury. In the absence of information as to these individuals it 
is impracticable to evaluate their trustworthiness. Donaldson is 
responsible for the attribution to Ysobel in the Solomons of a pandanus 
club of Fijian type; Clark is responsible for the attribution to New 
Guinea of a wheel-headed missile club of Fijian type. Such cases will 
form the theme of the concluding chapter. James Kingsbury appears 
responsible for several pieces in this and other museum groups. It 
seems probable that he picked up these objects as curios in ship- 
chandlers’ shops on the waterside, the junk of seafaring men; therefore 
itis only through accident that their records of source are accurate. In 
many of his labels he seems to regard Australia and the South Sea Islands 
as synonyms, and there occur not only Polynesian pieces assigned 
to Australia, but even so distinctive an object of Australian culture 
as the womerah, throwing-stick, erroneously credited to Polynesia. 
A few of the pieces were obtained from W. H. Miller by gift. Hewas 
in possession of a small museum of unassorted curiosities in Media, the 
shire-town of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The objects were 
devoid of the names of collectors, whereby the source might be checked 
