TYPES OF THE CLUBS. 79 
the transitive verb ‘oti to cut; therefore the teeth that cut, as applying 
to the saw-teeth with which one edge is armed rather than to the 
retroverted cusp. ‘The use of that cusp is not exactly what is suggested 
by our authority. After the head had been sawn off this spine was 
hooked into the jagged tissues of the neck and the trophy was therewith 
carried homeward in triumph. The modern knife, of which Kramer 
presents a picture on page 10, is simply the blubber-knife of the 
whalers. 
Length, 27.25 inches, of which blade is 16.75 inches. 
Shaft: At 7 inches, circumference 5 inches, flanging to 7.5 inches at the very 
roughly whittled end, flanging again to 6.5 inches at the 
blade; median angle prominent along blade, but absent in at 
rounded haft; lower side of shaft ends toward blade in a point. rd askin 
Blade: End, 6 inches high; flat surface on upper edge, 3.5 Dr. Reginald 
inches; rearward spike, 1.25 inches; upper edge smooth and Spear, U.S. N. 
rounded; lower edge, serration of 18 teeth, each cut clear from eras tah os tae 
the others with a strongly angled median line extending back eS a4. i vane 
to the median angle of the blade; on lower edge of blade inter- 
val between teeth 0.5 inch, teeth grading from 2 inches next haft to 3.5 
inches next end. 
Ornament: Filled with chunam; faces not correlated in pattern but in 
arrangement; designs in 3 groups, one at each end of blade and one inter- 
mediate, all on upper half of blade. 
Shaft, 11.5 inches; circumference, 5.5 inches at haft, decreasing to 4.5 inches 
next blade; lug semicircular, in plane of blade, perforated. 
Blade: 18.5 inches on median line; end next shaft cut in arc 1 ANSP. 
inch high to width of 3.5 inches on blade; maximum width at end aM 
of blade, 1.75 inches from median line to lower edge; 3 inches aren Irwin. 
from median line to upper edge, at a point 2.5 inches from Plate IV, 7. 
median line, the inner upward curve lies 1 inch toward the han- 
dle; no hook, but possibly broken off and trimmed over; edges round and 
smoothed, no serration. 
Ornament: Zigzag in transverse bands, dentelles in minor lines; faces not 
correlated; chunam filling; on right face curves at both ends marked with 
dentelles, on left face with zigzag. 
SICKLE TYPE (ULUHELJU). 
Plate VIII, f. Provenience: Niué. 
As has already been noted, ethnica from Niué are comparatively 
rare in the museums. Here we have a single specimen of great beauty 
and very typical of the art of war in Savage Island. If this type has 
arisen in Niué we find no difficulty in comprehending the utility of its 
distinctive form. We know that Niué fought bitterly against the 
coming of any stranger whatsoever. ‘There is but one spot in its pre- 
cipitous circuit where a landing may be effected—a tortuous passage 
between rocks. In such a constricted landing the defenders upon the 
rocks would find themselves distinctly advantaged by a long and light 
weapon with cutting edges. We recall, however, weapons of somewhat 
the same character from the most remote Melanesia. In Wuvulu and 
