RM2CE0HNN–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . II. FIG. 52. ADJUSTED FRONT OF KEKAULIKE CAPE, FIG. 45. The second point, the covering of the war-gods is well shown in the representa-tion of the front and profile of the Kukailimoku in this Museum that appeared in thefirst part of this Feather Work as Fig. 21, a small woodcut from a photograph takenin 1865 by the author when the idol was in the cabinet of Oahu College, and in a toler-able state of preservation. A comparison of the two illustrations will show that therather severe expression of the original has given place to an almost despairin
RM2CE5XAR–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . tudy and illustra-tion of the fish-hooks of the Pacific. A few years since he obtained the cloak, illustra-ted in Fig. 18, of a pattern resembling the Joy cloak (No. 16 in the list of ahuula, andStill the largest cloak known of Hawaiian manufacture), the eighteen circles of yellow THE BEASLEY CLOAK. 10 00, and the basal border of the same, while the body of the cloak is iiwi red. The meas-urements are: extreme breadth 8 feet 2 inches; depth of back 4 feet 7 inches; front 4 feet1 inch; the neck line measures 2 feet 4 inches; the basal line 9 feet
RM2CE5RGF–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . e faded. As stated in the previous account it was purchased in London for twenty-five pounds; its history will probably forever remain unknown. Compare this with theColgate cape, Fig. 115, p. 81, Memoirs, Vol. I: in both the motif is the same, keepingin view the effect when worn. 20 BRIGHAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. THE BOOTH CAPK.This curious specimen of more modern Hawaiian feather work is almost the onlyexample left on these islands of the use of green feathers for decoration of ahuula. Itbelongs to Mrs. C. W. Booth of Pauoa, Honolulu, and she
RM2CE0TG7–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . the result of the careful study by Mr. Stokes, which I regret is not suffi-ciently complete to enrich the present publication and must appear later, has broughtto light many interesting facts hitherto unnoticed. There are one or two points to which I may call the readers attention withouttrenching on the work of my colleague, whose careful and minute studies are well worthya separate publication. One is the curious fashion which I have already mentioned,but can now illustrate more clearly, of intentionally misfitting the colors of the divided D.
RM2CE6309–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . 6) it will be well to specify morefully. The divided crescent is black with a filling of yellow; the two semicrescentsabove this are red as are also the triangles on the lower front. The neck band consistsof twelve black and eleven yellow patches; similar patches ornament the front bordersarranged in the following order from the top: red, yellow, black, yellow, red, yellow, black,yellow, red, black. The strings are of the square braid olona. The Queen inherited itfrom her mother Keohokalole, and of its earlier history we have nothing authentic. T
RM2CE72NE–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 4. MODEL OF AN HAWAIIAN CHIEF, PETROGRAD.. FIG. 5. SIDE VIEW OF FIG. 4. 8 BRIG HAM ON HA WAIIAN FEA THER WORK. THE COOK COLLECTION AT PETROGRA1).Unfortunately the photographs sent were not numbered but the descriptions mayidentify them. The model which is supposed to represent an Hawaiian chief serves toshow the use of a number of articles in rather an incongruous association (Figs. 4 and 5).For example, the cloak is worn in a somewhat unusual manner, the remains of a ratheruncomfortable feather lei surround his throat, his right hand holds
RM2CE7HF3–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . t from its intimate connection with the sub-ject of feather work it seems well to repeat the illustrations with a somewhat extendeddescription. This case was made by the Art Metal Company of Jamestown, New York,and is well shown in Fig. 1. The case idea was suggested by a very good one in the Dresden Museum, butthe construction for the Bishop Museum needs was quite different, and as transportation Occasional Papers, VI, No. 3, p. 134. 4 BRFGHAM ON HA WAll AN FEA THER WORK. was matter for due consideration, it was made in sections and cemented tog
RM2CE5841–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . f the best work. The general pattern was certainly a favorite one although I do notknow of two so closely alike as those before us. The measurements of the Queen Emmacape are 32 inches in breadth, 15 inches depth behind, 8 inches in front. The Elgincape probably nearly conforms to these. 24 BRIG I I AM ON HA WAll AN FEA THER WORK. Since the above description was in type I have received from the Honorary Sec-retary of the Elgin and Morayshire Literary and Scientific Association (Instituted in1836), H. B. Mackintosh, F. S. A., Scot., through my fri
RM2CE7BC6–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. I. CASE FOR THE AHUULA. to avoid noise or floor disfigurement. The end door has its inner edge beveled and fitsinto a similar bed covered with poisoned felt; the lock is from Jenks, Middleborough,Mass., bolting top and bottom, and for greater security the bolt is held by an additionalYale lock. Within the end door are six wooden frames (covered on both sides withunbleached cotton cloth), which are supported by grooves top and bottom, and are readilywithdrawn and when out are supported by a movable trestle. To these frames on bothsides are at
RM2CE1A3N–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . , the upper red iiwi; the half crescents cut at the frontare divided in the same way, black on the outside, red within. The neck-band is redand the front borders alternate yellow and red. The effect of the closed front is shownin a later illustration. Fig. 51. 52 BRIG HAM ON HA WAll AN FEA THER WORK. KAPIOLANI CAPE. The other Kapiolani cape is quite different in shape and design. It bears on thenet the marks of a burn repaired at some unrecorded time. As will be seen by the meas-urements it is smaller than the last, the extreme width being 27 inc
RM2CE4K21–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . orical matters, he can at least appeal to thebest authority we have, Fornander.1 It is not necessary to go back beyond the descendant of the renowned Kualii,2Kamakahelei who was Queen (Moi) of Kauai when Cook arrived at Waimea in January,1778. Her first husband was Kaneoneo who was killed on Oahu about 1785-6, and whoseshin-bone forms the kumu of a famous kahili handle in the Bishop Museum (No. 24).With Kaneoneo Kamakahelei had two daughters, one of whom Kapuaamohu became oneof the wives of Kaumualii and grandmother of the late Queen Kapiolani. A
RM2CE2YHE–. 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
RM2CE5N55–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . 7 of the more ancient ahnnla.. FIG. 2 1. COI,OR DIAGRAM OF THK KOOTH CAPE. RED YELLOW $££&G RE E nV$% KEY TO COLOR. THE AHUULA OF KUAHALIULANI. This ancient and very interesting cape is almost the only one of which we havethe ownership preserved through several generations. Kuahaliulani was the son ofKekaulike (king of Maui A.D. 1775) by his wife Kaakaukamalelekuawalu. FromKuahaliulani it passed in succession to his son Keluluoho, grandson Hawaiiwaaole,great-grandson Napelakapu-o-Namahanai-Kaleleokalani, and great-great-granddaughterHarriet Panan
RM2CE2TGM–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . 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
RM2CE69K1–. 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
RM2CE7N2H–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . i^^SBSfiEffl. THE STEEN BIELE CAPE, COPENHAGEN. Supplementary Notes (No. II) to an Essay on Ancient Hazvaiian Feather Work.By William T. Brigham, Sc.D., Direclor of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum,Honorary Fellow oj the Royal Anthropological Institute oj Great Britain and Inland. WHEN in the first part of the first volume of the Museum Memoirs, a formalaccount of the ornamental feather work of the ancient Hawaiians was givento the public in 1899, it was hoped that all of the few remains of this perish-able fabric might he recorded in the archive
RM2CE1169–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 50. THE KAMAKAHELEI CAPE. THE POOMAIKALANI CAPE. This is another of the larger capes, measuring in breadth 43 inches; in depthbehind 19 inches, and in front 14 inches. It is difficult to say whether the yellow orred predominates, but with Plate IV the reader can perhaps decide. The double cres-cent of black with yellow lining in the center is a most striking decoration, while theblack and yellow half-crescents above this fit in most admirably. The red is iiwi andthe yellow and black 00 feathers. The name Poomaikalani was that of a sister ofQ
RM2CE0D4E–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . ell shown in the representa-tion of the front and profile of the Kukailimoku in this Museum that appeared in thefirst part of this Feather Work as Fig. 21, a small woodcut from a photograph takenin 1865 by the author when the idol was in the cabinet of Oahu College, and in a toler-able state of preservation. A comparison of the two illustrations will show that therather severe expression of the original has given place to an almost despairing coun-tenance; the net has been torn or loosened and despoiled of its fine red feathers, whichwere abundan
RM2CE44JD–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . tory, and he select-ed that to be photographed for the sculp-tors use, providing the model with anordinary malo at the same time, as wasproper. It is supposed that he sentonly a front view of the puzzling deco-ration, for while the front of the statueis all right, the use made of the rest ofthe long band was impossible. In the statue the cordon passes fromthe pendent end up behind the portionused as a waist-band, over the left shoulder, outside the cloak, instead of returning downthe back to form the belt as it should have done with the end tucke
RM2CE6J2J–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIGS. IO AND II. CAPES FROM COOK COLLECTION. 12 BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. Fig. ii. A yellow cape with red ornamentation as shown in the figure. Theneck band was of red and yellow while the front bands were smaller and of yellow andblack. As will be seen on the figure the feathers are nearly stripped from the lowerportion of the cape. A war cApF frqm cqoK) SYUNEy This war cape in the very interesting collection of Cook relics in the AustralianMuseum in Sydney was figured in the first volume of the Bishop Museum Memoirs and. FIG. 12. CAPE,
RM2CE6NRP–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIGS. O AND 9. HAWAIIAN AHUULA. COOK.. FIGS. IO AND II. CAPES FROM COOK COLLECTION. 12 BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. Fig. ii. A yellow cape with red ornamentation as shown in the figure. Theneck band was of red and yellow while the front bands were smaller and of yellow andblack. As will be seen on the figure the feathers are nearly stripped from the lowerportion of the cape. A war cApF frqm cqoK) SYUNEy This war cape in the very interesting collection of Cook relics in the AustralianMuseum in Sydney was figured in the first volume of the Bi
RM2CE5BG2–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 23. THE ELGIN CAPE.. FIG. 24. QUEEN EMMA CAPE. in her mothers family for many years, and it certainly appears to belong to the periodof the best work. The general pattern was certainly a favorite one although I do notknow of two so closely alike as those before us. The measurements of the Queen Emmacape are 32 inches in breadth, 15 inches depth behind, 8 inches in front. The Elgincape probably nearly conforms to these. 24 BRIG I I AM ON HA WAll AN FEA THER WORK. Since the above description was in type I have received from the Honorary Sec-re
RM2CE1RCE–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . heking in return for a decoration conferred on him by His Majesty. This cape measures in breadth 32 inches; in depth on the back 14.5 inches andon the front there is a slight inequality in the two sides, the left is 8.2 while the rightis 9 inches. The cape is yellow 00, the feathers long and handsome; in the centre is acrescent 3.2 inches wide in the middle and 20.5 inches from point to point, of red iiwiso well preserved as to resemble apapane in richness; two half-crescents are on eachfront border of the same iiwi; the neck-band is of iiwi with
RM2CE3175–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 35. THE CHAPMAN CLOAK.. ahuula. No. 57 in the 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
RM2CE4H21–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . etainers. This seems to account for the origin and present status of the ahuula described.The malo is shown in Fig. 31. The teeth used as ornament are good specimens andwell drilled: the end ones are set in rows alternating with rows of what has been calledpalates of rays, but on examination I found the material consisted of small bundlesof fish teeth most ingeniously bound together by delicate fibres of olona into units ofthe size of an ordinary molar tooth. But we will proceed in a more orderly manner to the measurement of this curiousfeather d
RM2CE604X–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . th of February,1853, he (Freeland) presented it to the Chichester Museum, where it hung in the openexposed to dust and moth for about twenty-five years until it was placed in a case bythe Rev. A. Fuller, father of the present owner, who was then acting as HonoraryCurator. On the fourth of June, 1912, it passed into the collection of Mr. A. W. F.Fuller with the entire ethnological collection of the Chichester Museum. P. Bishop Mvseum, Vol 18 BRIGHAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. The cape measures in extreme width 31 inches; depth on back, 13 inches; o
RM2CE5K02–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . ved through several generations. Kuahaliulani was the son ofKekaulike (king of Maui A.D. 1775) by his wife Kaakaukamalelekuawalu. FromKuahaliulani it passed in succession to his son Keluluoho, grandson Hawaiiwaaole,great-grandson Napelakapu-o-Namahanai-Kaleleokalani, and great-great-granddaughterHarriet Panana Hianaloli, wife of Samuel Keaoililaui Parker. Mrs. Parker left it to herchildren, Eva Parker Woods, Helen Parker Widemann, Samuel Keaoililaui Parker, Jr., library of 22 BRIG HAM ON HA WAIIAN FEA THER WORK. Ernest Napela Parker and James Keh
RM2CE0M0F–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . chosen the front adjustment of the so-called Kapio-lani cape, shown in Fig. 46, to show the complete matching of the opposite sides, wherethe patterns of the front edges form a complete whole and satisfy the demands of har-mony (Fig. 51); the line of division is almost obliterated and front and back of this capeseem equally complete. Now in the cape of Kekaulike, Fig. 45, the design is not bal NOTES ON THE TECHNIQUE. 57 anced in the middle of the back and there is no expectation that it should be so in front.Let the two designs show the results;
RM2CE6WHG–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . pe of New Zealand, and is made of black and whitefeathers of the common fowl. The curious border of matting which is sewed on (appar-ently since the cloak was used) is very puzzling. It would seem to render the use ofthe cape in battle impossible, and I have wondered whether the similar cape in theVienna Museum, No. 70, I, p. 76, which is also from Cooks last voyage will not showus that such a cover was not unusual. The extreme width is 40 inches. I had no speci-men of the Red-tailed Tropic Bird {Phaethon rubricauda) with which to compare thefeat
RM2CE4YXE–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 28. CLOAK NO.. 76. 28 BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. Bloxam was naturalist and his uncle chaplain (1824-1825). The cloak is in fairlygood condition although somewhat faded, and worn so as to show in places the tiny redfeather often placed at the base of the feather of the 00 to simulate the orange of themore prized-mamo; hence a mottled appearance in the yellow portions of the cloak.Through the kindness of Mr. A. R. Bloxam we are furnished with a colored drawingof the cloak and very complete and careful measurements: the latter are as fo
RM2CE51YE–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . ll for a cloak it is too large for a regular cape. It is a matterof regret that the possessor is still unknown. If it should finally find its resting placein some public museum the diagram and measurements will serve to identify it. The diagram and measurements did indeed serve to identify this cloak soonerthan imagined. In examining my notes on the Bloxam cloak the measurements werealmost the same and quite as close as can usually be made on a cloak somewhat wornand loose in texture. The shape of the central ornament differed, but I could not do
RM2CE76NJ–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 3. FRAME SHOWING SMALLER AHUULA AND LEI.. FIG. 4. MODEL OF AN HAWAIIAN CHIEF, PETROGRAD.
RM2CE4NEJ–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . THE LADY FRANKLIN CAPE. CLOAK IN DRESDEN MUSEUM. 20 Lefroy from whom the Museum purchased it in 1909. It was sent on approval that wemight assure ourselves of its excellent condition. Packed with great care and as pro-tection on the long sea voyage it was soldered in a tin case. It was in a time of peaceand there were no censors. The officials in San Fraucisco tore open the case (as theyhad perhaps the right and certainly the power), assessed a duty of $14.60, and withoutrestoring the packing sent it on two thousand miles farther by sea. As objec
RM2CE66W8–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . more existed, but if the con-jectures of the author are well founded there would probably not be more than two ofthese complimentary imitations of foreign mahiole made, one for Lono, the divinename given to Cook by the islanders when he first appeared, and the other for CaptainKing whom the natives much loved and believed a son of the commander, so evident. FIG. 15. STRUCTURE OF THE FEATHER HAT. was the confidence Cook reposed in his young lieutenant whom all the staff seem tohave liked, and whom Captain Clerke who succeeded to the command of the
RM2CE56H2–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . valuable. Presented by the CountessDowager of Seafield Castle in 1892. How the name of the late ex-queen became attached to this label is not stated.She visited England with Queen Kapiolani at the time of the Queen Victoria Jubileein 1887, but we have no record that this cape ever belonged to Liliuokalani. It ishardly necessary to add that the birds furnishing the scarlet, black and yellow feathersare not at the present writing extinct. REYNOLDS C. IPE IN SALEM MUSEUM. 25 m 1 LA IN THE PEABODY MUSEUM, SALEM.By the kindness of Mr. L. W. Jenkins o
RM2CE65E6–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . of the Cook relics thesehats should now be settled in museums as nearly antipodal as possible on land, Viennain Austria and Wellington in New Zealand. It is also interesting that two of the bestexisting collections of the articles Cooks expedition gathered from the Pacific have re-turned to their original home after strange wanderings, while the Hawaiian Islands withwhich the name of Cook is sadly though everlastingly connected, have hardly an im-portant specimen! i6 BRIG HAM ON HA WAll AN FEA THER WORK. AHUULA BELONGING TO HER MAJESTY ULIUOKALAN
RM2CE2B7W–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 37. THE CUNNINGHAM CLOAK.. Fig. 38 and is of iiwi red with triangles and bands of 00 yellow. Although not spreadout the pattern can easily be seen. The full width is 84 inches; the depth at back 60inches, and in front 36 inches; the neck-band is 33 inches. In the photograph thefeathers appear to be much worn, but when seen in Wellington in 1912 they did not makethat impression, although the examination was, owing to the limited time, but cursory.The medial band is noteworthy. The second cloak, Fig. 39, reminds one more of the Cookcape in the
RM2CE4B7F–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 31. KAUMUAUIS MAI^O. CORDON OF KAUMUALII DESCRIBED. 35 edges is attached by frequent cords a lei of oo feathers increasing the width of the cordonto six inches. The chief end which is to hang in front is thickened and weighted bythe insertion of three rows of human teeth (of conquered enemies?), the rows beingseparated by the insertion of the little bundles of fish teeth already mentioned and tobe more fully described later. All the teeth are included from incisor to molar anddrilled and firmly attached to the net; the different sizes cause
RM2CE1FKA–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . the anger of Pele, then you may Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, Hiram Bingham, A.M., p. 254. Kapiolani; a Memorialprepared by Mrs. Persis G. Taylor, Honolulu, 1897. Kapiolani, the Heroine of Hawaii, Rufus Anderson, D.D., fromHours at Home, May, 1866. 2 Forty years after this the author rode on mule back over this same path not much improved, and it was indeed inmany places a rough way. THE K.iriOLANI NUI CAPE. 5 ten the power of I Vic; but if I trust in Jehovah, and He shall save me from the wrathof Pele when I break throug
RM2CE1KXF–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIGS. 43 AND 44. KAUMUAUI CAPE, OBVERSE AND REVERSE. THE KEKAULIKE CAPE. 49 field like flashes of lightning: there is also a yellow border, rather narrow; three curvedtriangles on either front edge, those on the left being yellow with an intermediate blackone, while on the other the order of colors is reversed, the yellow being in the middleso that when worn the edges brought the two colors together. In front of these trianglesis a narrow border of yellow, red and black. The arrangement is so peculiar that adiagram has been made to show the two e
RM2CE384B–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . t is very fine and the feathers verysmall and that the cloak is for sale. It was for some time on exhibition in the AmericanMuseum where the accompanying picture was taken. THE KEARNEY CLOAK. A cloak of iiwi red, with broad basal border, two spherical triangles and four semi-crescents of 00 yellow; the front narrow borders are also of yellow, while the neck bandalternates red and yellow. The dimensions are: breadth 96 inches; depth at back, 48.5inches; in front 43 inches; the base measures 144 inches. It was given to the late Com-modore Lawrence
RM2CE5ENK–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . ology, I had a photographtaken of it and now have pleasure in enclosing herewith a copy of same, which youmay care to have for your archives. The cape at date of my visit to the Museum wasin fair preservation and the ticket attached to it stated that it had been presented tothe institution by the Dowager Countess of Seafield. Whence or when she had obtainedit the ticket did not mention. Although we have no measurements it is not difficult to measure it by one of thesame pattern in this Museum formerly belonging to Queen Emma, No. 957 B. P. B. M.,
RM2CE15BG–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . s and in front 10 inches.This cape was made during the reign of Kalakaua by Mrs. John Ena {rice Maria Lane), andis thus the latest of the capes here described and there will be no need to search the mele forany legendary history; the birds alone wore it before this King. Some of the birds werebrought alive to the palace aviary to furnish a portion of the feathers, and Queen Liliuo-kalani kept a number there during her reign, feeding them the juice of the sugar-cane. k^ I * ^ jm ^gjg 3& FIG. 48. THE KALAKAUA CAPE. / irfrwfffflBl ^ &&MM$r FIG. 49.
RM2CE53RR–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . ood preservation, the net rather more open than usual in capes of this size. THE CAVE NET.In an account of the contents of a fine burial cave on Hawaii (Memoirs B. P. B. M.,Vol. II, p. 20), is given a brief account of a net in a very poor condition but still retain-ing enough of its original shape to show that it was once a feather cape of the rectangu- 26 BRTGHAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. lar form worn over one shoulder in battle, and the few quills remaining attached to thenet show signs of red feathers. The cave was a dry one and well protecte
RM2CE27JB–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . Fig. 38 and is of iiwi red with triangles and bands of 00 yellow. Although not spreadout the pattern can easily be seen. The full width is 84 inches; the depth at back 60inches, and in front 36 inches; the neck-band is 33 inches. In the photograph thefeathers appear to be much worn, but when seen in Wellington in 1912 they did not makethat impression, although the examination was, owing to the limited time, but cursory.The medial band is noteworthy. The second cloak, Fig. 39, reminds one more of the Cookcape in the Australian Museum, Sydney, but
RM2CE6YNH–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIG. 5. SIDE VIEW OF FIG. 4. 8 BRIG HAM ON HA WAIIAN FEA THER WORK. THE COOK COLLECTION AT PETROGRA1).Unfortunately the photographs sent were not numbered but the descriptions mayidentify them. The model which is supposed to represent an Hawaiian chief serves toshow the use of a number of articles in rather an incongruous association (Figs. 4 and 5).For example, the cloak is worn in a somewhat unusual manner, the remains of a ratheruncomfortable feather lei surround his throat, his right hand holds a fan, his left a fly-flap kahili, a dancers rat
RM2CE4W19–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . THE LADY FRANKLIN CAPE. A very beautiful cape given by King Alexander Liholiho (Kamehameha IV) in1861 to Lady Jane Franklin who in her tireless search for traces of her lost husband cameto these islands in hope of gathering from the hardy whalers then frequenting our harborsin the winter season some tidings of possible relics of Sir John Franklins expeditionthat might be noticed in their summer visits to the Arctic seas. Public sympathy wasexcited strongly and the king noted his by the gift of this much-prized cape. On thedeath of Lady Franklin (
RM2CE48CG–. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . from the end and this has 10 teeth on one side and 13 smaller ones onthe other. After examining a number of fish teeth it seemed most probable that the onesused were those of the Hilu (Julis eydouxii) of the family Labridse. Fig. 32 showsthe bundle of teeth in the left hand corner; next on the lower line comes a tooth withits successor at its side, then the jaw from which it was taken, and other jaws with teethin place. In the upper left hand corner is a cluster of bones in the jaw of another fishwhich may have suggested the arrangement but are t
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