TYPES OF THE CLUBS. 77 
work. One species, intended for single-handed use, is distinguished by 
a long and slim shaft and smaller head which rises sharply from a little- 
expanded shaft. The other has a much 
larger head, which begins its formation epi: 
little above the grip. In all the speci- 
A 4 ; Piece No. 
mens which we have observed this club P ere ANSP 
is most elaborately ornamented. ‘The ey aS 
dimensions are recorded in table 35. 
Each of these pieces carries the perfo- | 
ae ; f Lengthy soo. 28.25 27 
rated lug, semicircular in the former, tri- | Haft........ aye 8.5 
angular inthelatter. Kramer’sillustra- | Width....... 6.75 1955 
Thickness... 1.5 2.5 
tions show the presence of lugs, but the 
perforation andform of lugarenotclear. 
Length, 28.25 inches. Circumference of haft (angular), 3.75 inches, flang- 
ing to 4.25 inches; lug semicircular, full width, vertical to plane of blade, 
pierced. Circumference at 12 inches, 4 inches; at 18 inches, 
5 inches; at 23 inches, 7 inches; four angles continuous 3789. 
throughout, midribs not carved. At 23 inches width across Shee Vv 
cusps 7 inches; at 26.12 inches width of blade 6.75 inches; pide L ae XU 
height of subtending arc, 2 inches; thickness, 1.12 inches; 42. ; 
median angle continuous as a rib across end of club; planes 
of blade slightly hollowed. 
Ornament: Simple zigzag beginning at 12 inches; double unit of concentric 
squares for 3 inches; 3 bands transverse zigzag for 1 inch; unit of longitudinal 
zigzag for 1.5 inches; 5 bands transverse zigzag 1.75 inches to beginning 
of cusps. Centers of blades longitudinal-transverse-longitudinal units of 5 
zigzags. Wings of blade longitudinal band-and-zigzags; width 1.25 inches, 
of which outer zigzags continuous; inner zigzags overlaid by pattern of blank 
triangles 0.5 inch high, bases touching at apices along median line, vertices 
alternately inward and outward; outer units 0.5 inch wide, alternately blank 
triangles as above, facing outward, and triangles composite of outward-facing 
small triangles in 5 rows; blank edge 0.25 inch. 
Samoan: Fa‘alautaliga, (fa‘a, like; lautaliga, toadstool; lau, broad surface; 
taliga, ear). 
Length, 27 inches, of which blade is 7.5 inches. 
Shaft: Hexagonal; width of faces, 1.5 inches, except two edges 1.25 inches; 
at end, bevel 0.5 inch wide on median line at foot of lug; 
median line continuous throughout; lug triangular, vertical faye 
to plane of blade, perforated. eae) 
Blade: Width across cusps, 10.5 inches; width, 10 inches’ Dr. Reginald 
at 2 inches from end; thickness, 2.5 inches; plane faces. Spear, U. S. N. 
Ornament: Conventional in a high degree; begins at 11 Tre nee 4) 55 
inches and covers part of shaft and all of blade; the designs ane: 
are filled with chunam, and on one face the filling has been picked out of all 
the even-numbered transverse units. 
HORNED CLUBS (NIFO‘OTI). 
Plate IV, 6, 7; Kramer, 210 e, 213-78 a, 216 b, 218 a. Provenience: Samoa. 
The two clubs here presented are distinctively Samoan. It is only 
by reason of the paucity of material that they are set in the same type, 
