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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



LONDON. British Museum. Keeperof Britishand Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography, Sir Charles II. Read. Assistants, O. M. Dalton, T. A.Joyce. 



Hawaiian Islands. Seventeen feather cloaks and capes (the feather- 

 work lias been fully described in the Memoirs of this Museum, I, pt. 1 ). 

 Two helmets, once feathered (Meyrick collection); 4 helmets with feathers 

 in good condition; 2 helmets in fair condition (Vancouver collection); helmet 

 of wicker-work with detached crest; Kukailimoku (Leverian Museum); 4 

 ditto, <me of them figured by Cook; many feather lei. Two rectangular feather 



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mats ( Memoirs, I, PI. VI; p. 438) possibly used by the kahuna or priest for a 

 rest for the idol; 3 large idols of wood; curious wooden idol with helmet: there 

 are no legs and it was perhaps carried on a pole as was the god Kukailimoku; 

 it is covered neatly with kapa like some idols from the Marquesas (Fig. 219). 

 Another wooden idol with the peculiar form of trimmed hair called mahiole 

 (Fig. 220); wooden idol from Kailua (Fig. 14); female idol (Fig. 15); stick 

 idol ( Fi.y. 16). Wooden idol with wide mouth well armed with teeth and 

 with head slightly reverted (Fig. 221). Wooden idol somewhat larger with 

 human hair I Fig. 222); 2 idols of stone taken from Necker Island by officers 

 of H. M. S. Champion ( Fig. 13); 2 wooden heads of images, probably idols; 

 aumakua; 5 kahili, small, with bone and tortoise-shell handles; 8 stone mir- 

 rors, good; 5 kupee or bracelets of boar-tusks, large (V. 1 ); 6 kupee with tor- 

 toise-shell; mho palaoa 1 W. Ellis); 7 common ditto, 1 with four small bone or 

 1 V. stands for Vancouvei collection. T43^J 



