. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . e list of ahuula. Kauikeaouli must have valued the services of thedistinguished officer very highly if we judge by this gift which at the time of presentationsome seventy-five years before this photograph was taken must have been in prime order. THE CUNNINGHAM CLOAK. Cloak of iiwi red with basal border, eight crescents and six triangles of 00 yellow.It was brought to the United States by Captain William Cunningham of Cambridge,Mass. He died in the early part of the nineteenth century from exposure following THE AHUULA IN THE WELLINGTON COLLECTION
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. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . e list of ahuula. Kauikeaouli must have valued the services of thedistinguished officer very highly if we judge by this gift which at the time of presentationsome seventy-five years before this photograph was taken must have been in prime order. THE CUNNINGHAM CLOAK. Cloak of iiwi red with basal border, eight crescents and six triangles of 00 yellow.It was brought to the United States by Captain William Cunningham of Cambridge, Mass. He died in the early part of the nineteenth century from exposure following THE AHUULA IN THE WELLINGTON COLLECTION. 4> shipwreck, leaving no record of where he obtained the cloak. It came into the posses-sion of Mrs. I.. P. M. Curran of Knglewood, New Jersey, and is now in the AmericanMuseum, New York. The measurements are: extreme breadth, 82.5 inches; depthbehind, 42.5 inches, front 3.| inches; neck circumference 22 inches, base 114 inches; V v£fe w JBk «S oW ^HBkk. W JM m ^?H mm ..????? ? ? In ?Br • FIG. 36. THE KKARNY CLOAK.. lower border 4 inches. In good condition but with a spear hole under the right arm;this was repaired before the present photograph was taken. THE AHUULA IN THE WELLINGTON COLLECTION. The ahuula in the Dominion Museum in Wellington consist of two cloaks anda cape of very unusual form; two mahiole, a hat and a Kukailimoku. The hat hasbeen described but the cloaks and capes have been held awaiting the measurements soimportant in the description, and the mahiole and feather god have kept them company. 42 BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. These have at last arrived, kindly sent by Dr. J. Allan Thompson the Director, whowrites: The collection was bought by the St. Oswald family at the sale of CaptainCooks collection, in London, 1819, and presented to the New Zealand Government bythe present Lord St. Oswald a few years ago. The first of the cloaks is shown in