166 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
upon which the historian may write the annals of this dauntiess woman 
of the sea, the only woman who has earned the title of adelantada. 
This club was found on Ysobel of the Solomons. In its weight, its 
size, and in its highly specialized form it is wholly alien to the far 
lighter weapon types of the Solomon culture. It is quite clear that it 
could not have been formed in the place of its discovery. It bears all 
the evidence of somewhat modern origin, for the marks of wear are 
slight. Its source may without a doubt be credited to Fiji. Yet 
between Fiji and the Solomons there can have been no communica- 
tion for centuries until the arrival of the better navigation of white 
sailors. “The canoecraft of the Solomons is so poor that it is incon- 
ceivable that voyagers from Ysobel could have cruised the unknown 
sea as far as Fiji and then won their way back with this article of war. 
Yet this club distinctly establishes a link between Fiji and the Solo- 
mons; not drift, but erratic. | 
In figure e, Plate VIII, is found yet another Fijian club, an ula. The 
manuscript label pasted upon it by some earlier possessor, in all like- 
lihood the original collector, since he has been at pains to set upon it 
his initials and the date, shows that it was found in New Guinea some- 
where, probably in one of the communities facing on Torres Straits. If 
it be really of Fijian provenience, which seems altogether likely, it is 
unique in that the shaft near the head is hexagonal in section, whereas 
all the true Fijian specimens examined are round. Yet as the plane 
surfaces of the shaft alternate with the flanges which compose the 
wheel-head, a characteristic Fijian treatment is recognized, for in the 
flanged-head type of rootstock clubs the same design is encountered. 
This erratic piece affords evidence of communication between Fiji and 
Torres Straits. 
The last of these erratics lies outside the theme of this work in its 
more restricted content, for itis not aclub. It is highly important in 
that it establishes yet another link of communication athwart regions 
where communication is not normal to the savage life. The erratic 
clubs exhibit the transference of material objects from one culture group 
to another. The last piece in its brilliancy of the colors of art and the 
more gorgeous hues of nature evidences the contamination of culture by 
the presence of the alien man. On this account it must stand as the 
most compelling proof of the nature of the principle which underlies this 
group of the erratics. In the case of the club erratics it is a matter of 
inference to argue the presence of the man who was the purposeful 
agent of the transport of the pieces from one culture group to the other. 
In this piece it is possible to sense the presence of the man in an 
alien culture site remodeling the piece to the canons of his own unfor- 
gotten art of decoration. It is not a club, yet it sheds so much light 
upon the transport of erratics that its inclusion here is highly germane 
to the theme. 
