a2 SISSANO. 
of Europeans is devoted to the other parent. In this next group 27 
ma follows readily upon 19, undergoes duplication to produce 28, in 
29 receives the same addition that appears in Polynesia and in 6 and 
14, then by final abrasion becomes 30 mam. ‘The passage from mam 
to nam involves a mutation which is infrequent, yet which has been 
observed in other of these studies. (See page 133.) 
31. doptin egg. 
REFERENCE: Melanesische Wanderstrasse, 37a, 86a. 
1. tipdng Sér. 
This is the only cognate which appears in these records, two forms 
of vocable found only in the Sissano lagoons and of uncertain source. 
34. el stone ax. 
REFERENCE: Melanesische Wanderstrasse, 770. 
Tae) Sissano. 10. giro Keapara. 
2. iere Jotafa. 11. gilo Galoma. 
Ss. yer Paup, Yakomul. 12. kilokile Bugotu. 
4. iém Sali. 13. ira Motu, Kabadi, San Cristoval. 
5. iém Lauan. 14. ilama Suau. 
6. aiyém lLemakot, Lakurumau, Pana- | 15. iran Nissan. 
ngai. 16. ari Barriai. 
7. ariam Gazelle Peninsula. 17. kima Limba. 
kiém Majum. 18. baré Wogeo. 
9. gila Negela. 
Lacking cognates in Polynesia and Indonesia, we are scantily able 
to trace out what unity of stem may be supposed to exist in this 
series. ‘The items 1-3 are clearly enough a single stem; another is 
seen in 4-8; yet a third, much wider in extent, in 9-15. The Barriai 
ari may through metathesis devolve from 13; probably in that case 
18 baré may find association therewith. Likewise 17 kima is closely 
allied with 8 kiém. On such scanty material it would be unwise 
to seek to establish stem unity. Yet I must point out that in 1-3, 7, 
9-16, and 18 we find either e(i) r (1) or re(i); that from 7, in which the ri 
appears, we find a consistent suite in 6-4-5-8. If, then, all these 
forms are reducible to the two types er and ri it will involve no great 
difficulty to establish the possibility of the interchangeability of the 
two stem elements, or rather their passage by two channels from a 
common source. It is by no means improbable that this stem is 
associable with 88 sel stone. Color is lent to this view by the fact 
that. the metonymy of designating an article by its component 
material is much anterior to the systems of formal rhetoric. To 
denominate this type of club as the stone finds a parallel in nuclear 
Polynesia where club names are as various in their forms, yet it is 
perfectly permissible to use the term lakau wood. In the savagery 
which persists into our own militancy, the expression “cold steel”’ 
instances the case in point. 
