56 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
Length, 43.5 inches; circumference of haft, 4 inches, flanging to 5.5 inches. 
Lug pentagonal, vertical to plane of blade, V-hole perforation. 
Shaft: Median angles continued down blade to grip; length, 29.5 P 30909 a. 
inches, expanding to circumference of 7 inches; sharply shouldered . 5#™02- 
toward blade. 
Blade: Length, 14 inches; uniform width, 3.5 inches throughout, strongly 
serrated on two edges; teeth carried back to median line; intervals approxi- 
mately 1 inch deep; 9 teeth on each edge; thickness, 1.5 inch throughout. 
Pyramidion angled only on median line and merged with upper pair of teeth. 
Length, 31.5 inches; circumference of haft, 3.75 inches, flanging to 5 inches. 
Lug semicircular, full width of haft, in plane of blade, perforated. 
Shaft: Median angles continuous through blade to grip; 3788 
length of handle, 17 inches, expanding to circumference of Samoa. 
4.25 inches, passing from circle to flattened diamond in sec- _Pepper-Voy. 
tion; sharply shouldered toward blade. Plate III, e. 
Blade: 14.5 inches long, diamond section, tapering from width on each face 
of diamond of 1 inch to 1.75 inches at final pyramidion; strongly serrated at 
edges; teeth from 0.87 inch to 1.75 inches long, carried back to median line 
with interspaced triangles along that line; intervals 1.5 inches deep. 
Pyramidion strongly angled; width, 3.5 inches; height, 1.75 inches; thick- 
ness, 1.5 inches. 
Ornament: Panel 4.12 inches long on one side of shaft nearest blade com- 
pleted in band-and-zigzag; outline of spirals in two directions to form panel 
2.25 1ncnes: 
COCONUT-STALK TYPE (LAPALAPA). 
Plates III, h, 7, 7; Kramer, 210 I, /, 213-77 a, 213-78 c, d, 216 c. Provenience: Samoa, 
Tonga, Rotuma, Fiji. 
For this type of weapon there is not only the consenting statement 
of all the islanders who employ it that it is really carved in representa- 
tion of the stalk of the coconut leaf, but the raw stalk itself is in fre- 
quent use as a club in fencing contests. In the vocabularies are found 
the Samoan Japalapa and its congener abaabai in Tongan, used both of 
the weapon and of the leaf-stem in its peaceful aspect, and the Samoan 
supplies the two verbs saulu and tuulu in the sense of trimming the 
stalk so that it may be used asaclub. It is found in one of the Samoan 
legends of the origin of social custom. ‘The boy Pava was filled with 
curiosity as to the errand which called his father away from home in 
the earliest morning of every day. One day the lad followed on earth 
and into heaven after heaven until he came to the abode of the gods, 
where kava was being served. The prying youngster was discovered 
by the gods in the hush tabu, which even now accompanies the kava 
service on earth when the liquor is ready to drink. Vexed at the inter- 
ruption, one of the gods picked up a coconut-stalk and addressed a 
blow at the intruder and burst his belly asunder. The subsequent 
repair of the damaged boy and the introduction of kava to the earth 
form an interesting continuation of the narrative. 
The coconut leaf is a portentous object of the vegetable world, for 
all ordinary measurements of common botany must be multiplied an 
