MIGRATION DRIFT AND ERRATICS. 161 
Here an outside influence is the cause of such redistribution of objects. 
They have moved anomalously in the Pacific area under conditions 
which are not normal to Polynesian life, which are wholly dissociated 
from the smooth movement of migration responsible for the drift. The 
exterior influence which has been at work in the scattering of the 
erratics is modern; it has been exerted only in the period since the dis- 
covery of the islands by the navigators of the white 
race and superior culture. The conditions of the drift 
were operative over many centuries; the conditions of 
the erratics arose and declined within less than a single 
century and have made almost as little impress of 
record upon written history as the drift conditions did 
upon the tradition record of savages. ‘The principal 
trades which are to be studied in explanation of the 
erratics, even though fully pursued in the days of our 
fathers, have gone out as completely as did the aimless 
voyages of migrating canoes in the long ago. 
The erratics in the collection under present review 
number 8 pieces; they are illustrated in Plates VII and 
VIII. 
A figurine collected by Voy in the Solomon Islands 
without further particularization of locality is here 
pictured. Itis recalled that Voy made but a single trip 
into the western Pacific, at that time a region of 
singular savagery and wholly devoid of the protec- 
tion of law and order, save such as the adventurers 
could carry about their persons. In this trip he visited 
only the southern and better-known part of that great 
archipelago of the Solomons and probably went no 
higher than San Cristoval, which was then the 
usual port of call for the few vessels which adventured 
upon this wild trade. For the present purpose it is 
matter of small moment to seek to establish with more 
precision the particular island at which Voy made this find, for at 
whatever spot he did find it the object was equally misplaced. It is 
a piece of walrus ivory; the carving in its every detail is as much 
to be assigned to Alaskan culture as is the material. 
With this is to be associated the object figured on Plate VIII, a,a 
club 4.5 feet long, picked up by Voy in Santa Cruz. This piece is 
carved throughout in the form characteristic of the light billet dis- 
tinctive of Samoa; it is fitted with a triangular lug athwart the full 
width of the haft end, although the perforation has not been made, and 
this lug is properly assignable to Samoan club art. Yet this piece is 
carved entirely from narwhal ivory. Now, it is perfectly clear that 
the walrus does not frequent the warm waters of the southern Solo- 

Little Bone God 
