. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . examination, and by the kindness of Mr. These articles were originally in the Bullock Museum, London, and the Dominion Museum has a most interest-ing priced sale catalogue of the contents of this museum sold on the block. Most of the Cook relics were gatheredinto the present collection through private hands. The capes, etc., will be figured later in this essay. M BRfGHAM ON HAW AH AN FEATHER WORK. Augustus Hamilton, an old friend, then Director, since deceased, I obtained photographsof this with the other specimens of this fine collection of Cook
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. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . examination, and by the kindness of Mr. These articles were originally in the Bullock Museum, London, and the Dominion Museum has a most interest-ing priced sale catalogue of the contents of this museum sold on the block. Most of the Cook relics were gatheredinto the present collection through private hands. The capes, etc., will be figured later in this essay. M BRfGHAM ON HAW AH AN FEATHER WORK. Augustus Hamilton, an old friend, then Director, since deceased, I obtained photographsof this with the other specimens of this fine collection of Cook relics which are herepresented. The first, Fig. 13, shows the upper surface of the hat with its covering ofred iiwi feathers relieved by a generous border of 00 yellow feathers on the outer rimand a narrow band around the body of the hat. The second, Fig. 14, shows the undersurface with the entire rim covered with the feathers, and the third gives a clear ideaof the basket work of the structure and of the somewhat decayed network to which the. FIG. 14. INSIDE OF FEATHER HAT. feathers are directly attached (Fig. 15). The weight of the structure is rather too greatfor comfort, and I doubt if the officers for whom these feather-covered baskets were madeever wore them, but it can be plainly seen that the workmanship was strong and skill-ful; we may well believe that they were a labor of love for the foreigners whom they atfirst worshipped and who later treated them so badly and left them so deadly a legacy.The structure is of wound basket work of great strength such as was often used inmaking the mahiole or helmets, and was made wholly independent of the feather cover-ing, the latter being also made apart and later fastened to the basket by sufficient loopsof fibre. Note also the figure of the same hat shown on the title-page. LIIJUOKALANl CAPE. •5 So far only the pair of hats have been found; of course it is possible that theremay be another in private hands, but none has appea