70 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
Length, 34 inches. 
Haft: Circumference, 3.5 inches, flanging to 4.25 inches; P 2268. 
slightly domed. re. 
Blade: Indicated by strap; width, 3.25 inches at 2 inches; phate XIV, 64, 
thickness, 0.75 inch. 65; XV, 86, 107; 
Ornament: 4 longitudinal bands throughout; at flange of XVI, 127, 130; 
haft 4 straps band-and-zigzag; 6 straps band-and-zigzag at %VUL 141. 
3, 6, 9, 11.5, 14, and 16.5 inches; shaft uniformly longitudinal band-and-zig- 
zag, same at tip of blade; elsewhere on blade slight use of basketry design; 
groups of 7 figures, human and animal. 
Length, 43.5 inches. 
Haft: Circumference, 4 inches, flanging to 5.25 inches; lug triangular, ver- 
tical to plane of blade. 
Blade: Width, 4 inches at 2.25 inches; thickness, 1.75 inches. P 3357- 
Ornament: Transverse band-and-zigzag for 18 inches. Blade: Ojqman.— 
one face basketry and transverse band-and-zigzag in alternate 
panels; other face, small panels band-and-zigzag and basketry, the whole 
crossed frequently by bands of dextral diagonal, producing appearance of 
lashing. 
CARINATED CLUBS. 
Plate III, m; Kramer 211, b, c, d, 213-77, c, e. Provenience: Samoa. 
In this group is associated a number of clubs in which the distinctive 
character is the keel adown the blade and generally a rib at the point 
of maximum breadth. Ina few pieces these distinctions may not have 
been treated with distinct carving, but their structural presence is 
clearly indicated by formative angles. With the exception of two 
pieces none of this group represented by 7 specimens carries any orna- 
mentation. Kramer draws several designs of varying head-forms and 
attributes them to foreign influence, yet in connection with unmis- 
takably similar forms now in Berlin he accepts without hesitation the 
attribution to Samoa. ‘There is every reason to regard this type as a 
distinct Samoan creation; if other museums show pieces from other 
sources we should prefer to assign them to Samoan influence. 
We have now to consider the cross-bars and the longitudinal rein- 
forcement. ‘The cross-bar has already presented itself to view in the 
case of some of the Japalapa and some of the paddle clubs, and we have 
suggested that it is typical of a tie of sennit put across for the purpose 
of strengthening the weak points of the weapon. This explanation 
does not seem to account for the longitudinal band of the carinated 
clubs and of some of the serrated group; yet in the latter group we shall 
find conclusive evidence in continuity of design beyond these some- 
what considerable bands that they are regarded as something applied 
after the pattern of ornament has been completed; that is to say that, 
although part of the structure, they represent a reinforcement rather 
than a structural feature. The resolution of the problem is not yet 
in view; we simply present it for consideration. 
