80 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
Aua of the Admiralty Islands Parkinson collected (Dreissig Jahre, 421, 
figs. 3 and 4) long clubs with sharp edges, but without the curve charac- 
teristic of Niué. In the Louisiades we have seen long sword-clubs 
with highly specialized curved and angled heads which seem to bear a 
general family resemblance to the one under present examination. 
Length: End, 9 inches; conical; tip, 0.25 inch diameter; circumference at 
base of cone, 4 inches, flanging to raised ring 5.5 inches circumference. 
Grip: Length, 12 inches; cylindrical; circumference, 3.5 inches. 
Blade: Quadrangular in section vertical to plane of flattened Hagia 
end; median angles continuous to tip, each face 1 inch wide along BECpeEwe, 
shaft; length, 39 inches, of which final 10 inches lie at angle of 
20° from shaft; at point of divergence each face 1.5 inches wide; thickness 
1.5 inches. 
Ornament: End covered with neat reticulation of double punctate lines; 
grip, beginning of similar ornament; at point where grip cylinder merges into 
quadrangular blade rough service of sennit to give strength where the wood 
has checked in drying. 
STAVES. 
Plate II, f. Provenience: Nuclear Polynesia. 
Although all the pieces in the museum are attributed to Fiji, this 
simple useful and ceremonial object occurs all through Nuclear Poly- 
nesia, and no specific characters are recalled. They play a large part 
in the public oratory on festive and diplomatic occasions upon the town 
greens, when trained and hereditary speakers arise to address the pop- 
ulace or to proffer honors or to present grievances to those who sit in 
high estate. They are scarcely to be classed with the weapons of war, 
yet in personal encounter they are not without their potency. 
Length, 45 inches. 
Circumference: At haft, 3.75 inches; at butt, 4.75 inches. P 2148 
Ornament: Grip, 9.5 inches; transverse straps of diamonds Fin ; 
and triple border bands with picture of interlacing. Oldman. 
Apparently Maori. Plates VIII, b. 
Haft, rounded; butt, domed. 
Length, 38.5 inches. 
Circumference: At haft, 3.5 inches; at butt, 4.5 inches. ELE 
Haft, rounded; butt, domed. Yori 
Ornament: Grip, 8 inches; transverse straps of diamonds Plates VIII, c; 
and triple border bands with picture of interlacing. XII, 57. 
Apparently Maori. 
Length, 44.5 inches. 
Circumference: At haft, 4 inches; at butt, 4.5 inches. a Cae: 
Ornament: Complete ornamentation blocked out, but Chak Oninen 
poorly and partially executed; at grip 1 unit fine band-and- 
zigzag, 7 units band-and-zigzag much extended, all separated by straps of 
double band-and-zigzag. 
