6 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
with the knack of each hand if we are at all to comprehend these 
weapons of deadly offense. Each art will afford interest, and we are 
to find that our savages of Nuclear Polynesia have developed two arts 
of theclub. They at least have given the higher honor to the munition 
worker; he has a position in their social scale just below the highest 
rank of life. 
Thus it is proper to consider in the former place the maker of the 
clubs. In some of the illustrations several clubs of the same type are 
grouped for comparison. ‘These illustrations in a small degree, such 
detailed examination of the pieces as it has been possible to make, will 
convince the observer that each type of club has its own art, its own 
canons. Nothing is left to chance; each type is the product of trained 
artisans following an ancestral model, although without comprehen- 
sion of its motive, and turning out a uniform article. It would be 
feasible to infer the club-makers even if there were naught to go upon 
save their work. Yet there is fuller information; on the Polynesian 
side we know about the tufuga, on the Melanesian side in Fiji we know 
about the mataz. Under whatever name designated, these are the artifi- 
cers of the community, the workers of wood and the workers of stone. 
In both racial stems they have, as of indefeasible right, their own high 
place in the social order; in the accidentia of their position, in the 
extension of their powers such as always is within the power of the man 
who does and who is therefore the man of ambition, the two races 
divaricate in detail. The Fijian matai creates political power through 
his art; he has been known to overthrow weak chiefs despite heredi- 
tary power; he has been found to lay down a stronger than divine 
law to priests. In Samoan the tufuga is not infrequently king and 
priest, who is content to exercise in his handcraft the power of the 
throne and the altar. Because he has the skill of hand, because in a 
torpid life his is the one touch of industry (in the following notes it 
is not wholly fortuitous that we find but few pieces incomplete), he is 
thaumaturge; there is no limit to what he may make of himself. 
Here is evidence (anticipated from my forthcoming work upon the 
courtesy phrases of Samoa), the honorific titles of the somewhat con- 
siderable town of Safotulafai on the island of Savai‘l, phrases which 
must constantly be interwoven into the address of every visitor who 
would appear in good form. 
Tulouna a ‘oe, le tufuga pule. 
Tulouna a ‘oe, le tufuga to‘atama‘i. 
Tulouna a ‘oe, le tufuga alofa. 
Tulouna a ‘oe, le fa‘atufugaga. 
Because tufuga means so much more than mere artisan, worker of 
wood in club and house and canoe, I shall let it stand in the transla- 
tion without weakening it by turning into unexpressive English. In 
