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present Museum), the whole to be in the care and custody of the 

 teachers of the Kaniehanieha vSchools.' 



When I transferred nij- residence to these islands in 18.S8, I 

 thought little of the school cabinet plan and for two years was 

 busily engaged, with the assistance of Mr. Acland Wansey, in 

 collecting material and especially photographs all over the group 

 for a history of the Hawaiian Islands which Mr. Bishop had 

 engaged me to prepare, and I do not remenibei visiting the school 

 grounds until the Museum building (the first of cut stone on the 

 islands), had been erected, when one afternoon Mr. Bishop came 

 to my house on School Street and asked me to drive out with him 

 and see what had been done. It was my first view of a building 

 in which I took little interest, for I knew what school cabinets of 

 curiosities almost invariably become in untrained and uninterested 

 hands, and the appearance of the bare walls and uufloored interior 

 was not in the least attractive to me, and I did not visit it again 

 until Mr. Bishop showed me the Emerson collections and some other 

 rather unimportant material that he had partly displayed in the 

 basement of his house on Emma Street, and asked me to arrange 

 these in the new building which had by that time been floored, 

 and the kahili cases built into the smaller of the two exhibition 

 rooms. As I remember, none of the Emma collection or the choicer 

 of Mrs. Bishop's treasures were in the basement; indeed it was 

 months before the whole of these came to the Museum. 



I had already photographed the kahilis en masse in the garden 

 of the Emma Street house, and also groups of other Hawaiian 



' A chapter in the history of this Museum hitherto unknown to the 

 Director has been called to his attention by a member of the Board of Trustees. 

 It seems that the Princess Panahi and Oueen P^mma had discussed the import- 

 ance of preserving the Hawaiian relics they both had in notable numbers, 

 but no definite phm of a museum was reached when Mrs. Bishop died bequeath- 

 ing her collection to her husband. The following year the Queen died leaving 

 her collection by a codicil to her will to be joined to that of her old friend in 

 such a museum as might later be decided upon. The codicil was not legally 

 witnessed and could not be probated. A. J. Cartwright, the trustee of the 

 estate, arranged a deed of gift signed by all the heirs or legatees and the 

 intention of Queen Emma so expressed was carried out and her treasures 

 joined those already in Mr. Bishop's hands. 



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