158 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
Nuclear Polynesia, we postulate a second inter-migration period with 
the same absence of communication with the island areas lying to the 
westward; this period endures until the beginning of the great voyages 
which have resulted in the establishment of Polynesian culture upon 
the islands of the South Sea eastward of Fiji and extending north to 
Hawaii, eastward to Easter Island, south to New Zealand and the 
Chatham Islands. 
For these inter-migration periods we assume an absence of com- 
munication between Melanesians and Polynesians. In general this 
assumption is tenable. In each period the great eastward impulse 
had halted. The same is true of the third resting-period, that which 
followed the era of the great migrations, which endured for some 
500 years, to the great upheaval produced by the arrival of adventurous 
Europeans upon voyages of discovery. Yet intercommunication was 
not wholly at a standstill in the resting-periods; greatly reduced it was 
undoubtedly, but not wholly absent. This is susceptible of estab- 
lishment in the history of such Melanesian islands as Uea of the Loyalty 
group, of Aniwa and Fotuna in the New Hebrides, of certain of the 
atolls of the Polynesian Verge proximate to the Solomons. Likewise, 
in the modern period following European discovery the conditions 
attendant upon the introduction of the alien culture have led to a 
renewal of interchange of communication among the several races 
of the Pacific. 
In this final chapter it is proposed to deal with the few but very 
interesting museum specimens which establish the quite modern drift 
of implements from the source of their origin to a point of discovery 
and collection where they are anomalous. By thus dealing in detail 
with matters which are readily established in the common acquaint- 
ance of modern and familiar customs, it is possible to illuminate 
matters which antedate the coming of European investigation. But 
before entering upon this specific theme it is proper to rehearse sum- 
marily what has been discovered in the club record as bearing upon 
the general problem of the migration. 
That Melanesian Fijians of Nuclear Polynesia were at some remotely 
past time in contact with a specific culture with which the Moanus and 
other folk of the distant Admiralty Islands were at some indefinite 
time in contact is made apparent in the study of the axe-bit clubs 
with the device of a mortised socket for a blade. The condition is 
very succinctly set forth in the foregoing sentence. It is not intended 
to express the opinion that the Fijians and the Modanus are of the same 
race; there is a lack of anything which might serve as evidence upon 
which to base an opinion that the Melanesians of Fiji, in the course of 
migration to their present abode, had been commorant at any time 
upon the Admiralty Islands. But by removing the lashings of the 
Modanus obsidian spears there is disclosed the device of a doubly 
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