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Ethnology of Tongareva

Figure 63. Weapons: a, b, spears (to) after Louis Choris; c, man's club (korare) in Bernice P. Bishop Museum (C. 292); d, woman's club (tamiutu) after Wilkes. a, spear with wide two-edged point and b, with simple point: 1, point; 2, butt piece; 3, lashing of butt piece to spear shaft. c, man's club, 7 feet 9 inches long: 1, lozenge-shaped blade 30 inches long, 2.1 inches wide, and 1.1 inches thick at proximal end; 2, well-marked shoulders cut in at right angles to mesial longitudinal line to me…

Figure 63. Weapons: a, b, spears (to) after Louis Choris; c, man's club (korare) in Bernice P. Bishop Museum (C. 292); d, woman's club (tamiutu) after Wilkes. a, spear with wide two-edged point and b, with simple point: 1, point; 2, butt piece; 3, lashing of butt piece to spear shaft. c, man's club, 7 feet 9 inches long: 1, lozenge-shaped blade 30 inches long, 2.1 inches wide, and 1.1 inches thick at proximal end; 2, well-marked shoulders cut in at right angles to mesial longitudinal line to meet blade, making flare of shaft on surface slightly higher and 0.1 inches thicker than blade; 3, widest part of blade not quite halfway between shoulder and point, 5.1 inches wide and 1.3 inches thick; 4, sharp point; 5, median edges of blade (see section), disappear beyond widest part; 6 shaft, 3.1 inches wide at distal shoulders (2), sloping in to width of 1.55 inches and thickness of 1.1 inches near middle of shaft, median and lateral edges making shaft four-sided instead of round; 7, point 3.2 inches from proximal end, 1.1 inches wide and 1.0 inches thick where transverse cut made; 8, blunt point at proximal end. d, woman's club: 1, rounded distal end differentiating it from pointed club used by men; 2, two paired chevrons incised on shoulderless blades; 3, proximal end of shaft which ends indefinitely in Wilkes' drawing.

Figure 63. Weapons: a, b, spears (to) after Louis Choris; c, man's club (korare) in Bernice P. Bishop Museum (C. 292); d, woman's club (tamiutu) after Wilkes. a, spear with wide two-edged point and b, with simple point: 1, point; 2, butt piece; 3, lashing of butt piece to spear shaft. c, man's club, 7 feet 9 inches long: 1, lozenge-shaped blade 30 inches long, 2.1 inches wide, and 1.1 inches thick at proximal end; 2, well-marked shoulders cut in at right angles to mesial longitudinal line to meet blade, making flare of shaft on surface slightly higher and 0.1 inches thicker than blade; 3, widest part of blade not quite halfway between shoulder and point, 5.1 inches wide and 1.3 inches thick; 4, sharp point; 5, median edges of blade (see section), disappear beyond widest part; 6 shaft, 3.1 inches wide at distal shoulders (2), sloping in to width of 1.55 inches and thickness of 1.1 inches near middle of shaft, median and lateral edges making shaft four-sided instead of round; 7, point 3.2 inches from proximal end, 1.1 inches wide and 1.0 inches thick where transverse cut made; 8, blunt point at proximal end. d, woman's club: 1, rounded distal end differentiating it from pointed club used by men; 2, two paired chevrons incised on shoulderless blades; 3, proximal end of shaft which ends indefinitely in Wilkes' drawing.