Figure 127.—Aitutaki paddle (Cranmore Mus., Kent). a, front showing carved upper end (1) of shaft, narrow shoulders (2), carving on blade below shoulder (3) and long mesial edge (4). Total length, 2,425 mm.; shaft length, 1,073 mm.; blade length, 1,352 mm.; shaft diameter in middle, 52 mm., at shaft junction, 54 mm. by 45 mm.; blade width at shoulder, 82 mm., at widest part, 342 mm. b, details of front carving (a, 3) 183 mm. deep; these may be analyzed into transverse panels with serrated lower edges and rows of motifs which are V-shaped or triangular. with their points directed downward toward alternate points in the lower edge and also elliptical figures, panels are as follows: 1, lower serrated edge, row of V-shaped figures, row of triangles, upper edge with spaced serrated projections directed upward; 2, serrated lower edge, alternating triangles, and serrated upward projection from upper edge; 3, serrated lower edge, alternating triangles, middle panel projecting upward with two elliptical figures, and narrow serrated panels projecting from upper edge laterally to reach side edges of blade; 4, lower serrated edge, alternatiing triangles, and straight upper edge; 5, narrow transverse panel with both edges serrated; 6, lower serrated edge, alternating triangles, row of elliptical figures, upper edge scalloped in series of convex curves; 7, median vertical panel extending down 100 mm.; upper end in trident shape; three median lozenges with short lateral serrated projections on either side from middle and junction of lozenges; lower end continues into raised median ridge which extends to blade tip. c, carving on back of blade, similar to front (b) without serrated projections from upper border of panels: 1, serrated lower edge, row of alternating V-figures, row of triangles, straight upper edge; 2, panel with both edges serrated; 3, serrated lower edge, alternating triangles, straight upper edge; 4, both edges serrated; 5, serrated lower edge, alternating triangles, scalloped upper edge with double curves (elaboration of upper edge of b, 6). d, carved upper end of shaft, length, 82 mm.; width of each of four surfaces, 73 mm.: each surface has two human figures (1) at upper end, faces without details, hands clasped on abdomen, legs flexed, and bounded below by serrated edge; 2, three raised crescents in two vertical rows, bounded below by serrated edge; 3, row of raised geometrical figures formed of upper and lower lozenges with split tails directed to middle and connected by larger lozenge-shaped body (resembles figures on Mitiaro gods, fig. 228); 4, horizontal panel with both edges serrated, e, various painted motifs: 1, side edge of blade; 2, motif based on the carved motif (b, 7).