40 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
tree; there is the sympathy of magic between the tree and the carved 
head of his club; the weapon by reason of that mana seeks to fly across 
the gap to rejoin its parent tree, and if his hand can keep its clutch 
upon the shaft of the club the soul will follow. At this gorge perilous 
he throws his tambua; if it hit the pandanus the spirits of evil quit their 
howling and their assaults upon his slender foothold and let him pass 
onward toward whatever trials may await him on the road to bliss. 
Parts of this account have been preserved by Calvert and Williams and 
by Basil Thomson; the more intimate explanation I owe to the careful 
exposition given me by Ratu Lala in Taviuni, a chief of great position, 
who was devoted to the knowledge of the past of his people. 
The Fijian name of the club, totokia, is explicative of the manner of 
its use, for tokza is used to describe the pecking action of a bird. In 
Fiji the spoils of war were the spoiled warrior. When one’s foe went 
down in battle he became known under the new designation of mbokola, 
together with a rich vocabulary descriptive of his further treatment. 
Without undertaking the recension of this vocabulary with notes criti- 
cal and exegetical, it will suffice to say that the immediate value of the 
mbokola when lugged back by his conqueror was entirely in the com- 
missariat service. When the victor’s wives set about their task of 
preparing the mbokola so that he might be his own funeral baked meat, 
they were the objects of the envy of other women whose own heroes had 
not had the fortune or the courage to replenish the larder. ‘There are 
conventions to be observed in such matters, not mere victory and the 
resultant piéce de résistance, really of ineffectual resistance, will prove 
wholly satisfactory. Certain fashions rule with a most rigid force; 
there are crowns to be broke, but it must be in a certain way, else the 
jeers of the other women will cause shame to mantle upon the cheeks 
of the women preparing the body for the oven. ‘The crown must be 
pierced exactly with the spike of this deadly weapon, but the skull must 
not otherwhere be split; it calls for extreme nicety in delivering the 
winning blow to be able to check the impact in the exact moment of 
success in order that the weight and sharp spikes of the pandanus head 
may not mar a perfect work. 
In this group we find 8 pieces; all are based upon the same general 
plan. ‘The haft is finished in a slightly domed knob with a bounding 
edge, except 3183. ‘The spike issues out of the knob from a circular 
plate molded at its circumference to a bounding ring through a shallow 
guttered channel, except that in 3182, 3182 a, and 2487 this plate lacks 
the channel and ring, and in 3183 the ring is present but the plate 
absent. In two cases we find perforation—inverted V in 2487 at the 
edge of the knob, V-perforation at the summit of the knob in 2252. 
To this type of club the same remark applies in the matter of suspen- 
sion as in the case of the rootstocks. 
