CHAPTER II. 
TYPES OF THE CLUBS. 
Having presented the preliminary notes in the foregoing chapter, 
the examination of the several pieces in the collection assembled in 
groups of the particular types may follow. A beginning is made with 
the simplest form, that which comes closest to the mere branch torn 
from the tree, which it has been somewhat considerably, but perhaps 
quite as inconsiderately, the fashion to postulate as the earliest advan- 
tage which the possession of reason gave to the man-brute over the 
other brute. 
BILLET TYPE. 
Plate IIa. Provenience: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa. 
The museum has no specimen definitely ascribed to Samoa, but in 
Kramer’s Samoa, II, 210 (d, f, h, k), 213 (78 e), and 218 c are excellent 
illustrations of the type accredited to Samoa; all in Stuttgart, except 
78 e, which is in Berlin. ‘The speech record is confirmatory: Samoa, 





TABLE 1. 
Length : Length : Length ; 
aches) Piece No. ES Piece No. Gnchesy. Piece No. 
27 3100 5 39 3147 43-5 | 2491 
31 3100 a 40.5 | 3147 a, 2489 43-75 | 2493 
31.5 3177 41 2267 44 3185 
33 3780 41.5 3780 € 45 2488, 3186 
34-5 2265 42 3184, 3144, 46 3780 ¢, 3780 a 
3780 d 
37 2492 42.5 |.3143 49 2490 
povai; Tonga, bovai; Fiji, mbowat. Though it is not requisite, I add 
the support of my own observation. Specimen P 3100 a appears in 
the collection with no note whatever of provenience, but interroga- 
tively accredited to Fiji. Inasmuch as it is of a form very familiar to 
me in Samoa, carries the lug at the end of the haft, which, though not 
exclusively, characterizes Samoan types, and has the ornament picked 
out with chunam, which is even more distinctive of Samoan art—by 
reason of the cumulation of these reasons I do not hesitate to assign 
this club to Samoa and in all likelihood to Tutuila. 
Until success has been attained in establishing the metrology of the 
Pacific islanders, toward which this paper is in part to serve as an intro- 
ductory essay, it will be necessary to tabulate measurements with 
considerable minuteness. Table 1 groups the length over all, stated 
in inches, of the 23 pieces which fall within this type. 
It is not yet clear whether the differences in length are minutely 
significant, yet at some point in the scale it is likely that we shall find 
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