46 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
Ornament of blade: On median line from socket to edge irregular trape- 
zoidal plain space 1.5 inches long, 1.25 inches wide; reticulation radiating out- 
ward and forward from socket as far as points of blade, issuant from trapezoid 
reticulation parallel to edge of blade; edge marked by 4 deep pits. 
Shaft: Straight; angle with head 20°; length over all, 36 inches, of shaft 
proper, 28 inches; oval section; circumference at haft 4.25 inches, at head 5.5 
inches, flange 6.75 inches. Without ornament; cutting 
crude. P 2478. 
Head: Ornament crude and much worn. Ne -Old 
Socket: 2.5 inches wide at shaft, 4.5 inches distal; thick- Plate IV, = io 
ness 2 inches at distal knobs; faces uniform; edges of basketry 
ornament not clearly connected with ornament of faces. First unit: 175 
inches long, without transverse band; at upper side rectangular rib 1.5 inches 
transversely, 1.75 inches longitudinally; in panel basketry pattern; no perfora- 
tion. Central element: ridge 1.75 inches long, 0.25 inch wide proximal, 
0.5 inch distal; no ornament. Third element: shallow depression carrying 
strongly marked knob merging into rib 0.5 inch wide, 0.25 inch thick, 3 inches 
from shaft; decoration, basketry. Second unit absent. Third unit: 1.75 
inches long. Central element: 1.5 inches wide proximal, 0.75 inch distal, 
much abraded basketry; at proximal corners knobs roughly indicated, ex- 
tended longitudinally in ribs to distal end of socket, outer 2.25 inches, inner 
2 inches long; ribs without ornament, showing blade in angles; basketry orna- 
ment outside ribs. 
Blade: 3 inches wide at socket, 5.5 at edge, but chipped; upper point with- 
out cusp, lower (chipped) point suggests cusp; thickness, on edge 0.75 inch, 
at thickest point, near center, 1.25 inches. 
Ornament of blade: Right face very much worn; at 2.5 inches from socket 
curved lines radiant to points; at 3 inches base of central triangle 1.25 inches 
wide, other sides 2.25 inches; ornament between triangle and points appar- 
ently basketry carried over into basketry on edge of blade. Left face: two 
lines roughly curved from center of socket to points, spaces covered with 
transverse rows of roughly picked longitudinal incisions; at 2.5 inches from 
socket base of triangle 1.25 inches wide, other sides 2.25 inches; stripe next 
base 0.37 inch longitudinally, of 9 dextral diagonal lines; rest of triangle 
pecked incisions; from base apices of triangle and from longer sides roughly 
parallel lines to final element at edge of blade, these lines flanked by longi- 
tudinal strips of basketry 3.12 inches wide; these flanked by areas of longi- 
tudinal lines forming triangles with curved lines flowing from center of socket; 
edge of blade thin border of dextral diagonal lines on face; on edge proper, 
basketry ornament. 
LIPPED CLUBS. 
Plates II, g, h, 7; VI, a, b, c. Provenience: Fiji. 
The 15 pieces in this group form one of the most elegant and highly 
interesting series in the museum’s collection of South Sea ethnica, and 
in addition I expect to employ the type for the establishment of a valu- 
able theory of origins. Resting upon head forms, a subdivision of the 
group into three species is at once apparent, as here stated. 
A. Edges of head rounded; rib in angle; lip and head oval; panels of 
roughened and pecked surface ending in the curve of the shaft in a dis- 
tinctly marked line of demarcation and at the end in two pieces cover- 
