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Berne. 



Fig. 40. Berne Museum. 



Region. These have been better preserved than the spolia brought 

 by other members of the expedition and are now in the fine build- 

 ing of the Berne Municipal Museum. With these relics are exhib- 

 ited a miniature and an oil painting of the artist. Like all speci- 

 mens from the "South Seas" in early days Waber's have either 

 originally or in the course of time been sadly mislabelled. 

 Haii'aiian Islands. 

 Feather cloak about 60 inches long of iiici ornamented with tri- 

 angular figures of 00 feathers. It was in fair condition sealed in 

 a glass case within the exhibition case. It was impossible to ex- 

 amine it. Feather helmet of ordinary form red with yellow crest. 

 2 Feather leis, red, black, and yellow. Ulumaika of white stone. 

 5 Shark hooks with bone tips. 2 Niho palaoa much decayed; 

 the smaller of bone (?). Kupee of bone and tortoise-shell; an- 

 other of boar tusks (fragment). 2 Anklets of network covered 

 with white shells. Dagger of kauila slim and flattish. L,ei of 



