32 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
Length, 43.75 inches, of which head is 8 inches. 
Head: Roots worked in flanges; edges cut square. ee 
Shaft: Circumference at haft, 5.5 inches, at head, 7 inches. Begperevae! 
Ornament: Wrapping of sennit, 2 inches; grip, 8.75 inches ; 
longitudinal band-and-zigzag, ending in strap of same; remainder of shaft 
parceling of black and yellow sennit for 24 inches, ending in finish of double 
strap of sennit in square weaving; head formerly covered with chunam, 
abundant traces of which remain in hollows. 
Length, 46 inches, of which head is 14 inches. 
Head: Rootlets left in natural condition. Fi 
Shaft: Circumference at haft, 5.5 inches; next head, 8 Chak Oldman 
inches; end of haft slightly domed cap. 
Ornament: Grip, 9.75 inches; 2 panels longitudinal band-and-zigzag sep- 
arated by single band of zigzag. 
P 2484. 
MISSILE CLUBS. 
Plate I, a, b, ¢; VIII. Provenience: Fiji. 
For reasons of the carpentry of the clubwright it has seemed fit to 
introduce at this point the characteristic missile clubs of Fiji. Ina 
much deeper examination of the source-origin of this club we shall 
engage in problems of far greater complexity. But at this point we 
are attracted solely by the resemblance of at least one type within this 
group to a type frequent among the rootstocks, and by the evi- 
dence, both from the illustrations and even more from the observation 
of the club-maker at work in Fiji, that all of these missile clubs are 
wrought from the sapling and the superior roots quite as much as are 
the formidable weapons which we have just passed in review. While 
the type is distinctly Fijian, we note its occurrence elsewhere. Kramer 
illustrates (210 g) a missile club which appears to correspond exactly 
with the ball-head of Plate V, 12, a piece now in Stuttgart accredited to 
Samoa; on the same plate, figure p, he presents from the same museum 
and of the same provenience a short club with a shaft rather thicker 
than those of the collection here examined, with a ball-head marked off 
in small knobs by scorings at right angles, with the final knob of Plate 
V, 7, 8, 9, 10, rather more of the type exhibited in the rootstock type 
in Plate V. It is quite evident that this club could not be used after 
the Fijian method about to be set forth, for the end of the haft is too 
large to pierce the tissues. In our vocabulary material we find that 
the Tongan has kolo as the name of a club without further definition, 
and the Samoan variant ‘olo is defined as a short knobbed club carried 
by young men, a description which may be taken to apply to Kramer’s 
210 p. 
In the 17 pieces here assembled we may readily discern three posi- 
tively distinct types. Of these, that which we may designate the ball 
type, 5 pieces, we have the head a more or less regular ball, the shaft of 
equal diameter throughout, neither flanging at the haft nor swelling to 
