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The number of etlinological accessions during the year was 365, classified 

 as follows: gifts, 180; purchases, 126; loans, 15; gifts of relics, 44. This is 

 less than the average for the preceding five 3ear period, in the early part of 

 which large collections were made, given and purchased. 



GIFTS. 



Mr. Bruce Cartwright, Jr., presented an accumulation of small loans 

 made by him from time to time and amounting in all to fifty-two specimens ; 

 Judge S. B. Dole — one of the rare Neckar Islands stone idols, which makes 

 a total of nine now brought to light; Judge H. E. Cooper — a tobacco pipe, 

 apparently of slate, whicli was dug up in Manoa Valley, Oahu, the same 

 valley in which an Indian arrow head was found many years ago. 



The wa'u ipii (scraper of cowry shell) lost siglit of until 1916 when 

 specimens of it were found by Messrs. Judd and Cooke on deserted house 

 lots on IMolokai (described in Occasional Papers Vol. VI, p. 232) has now 

 been turned up in great numbers, as shown by the gifts of Messrs. Judd 

 and Munro. 



Another gift worthy of special mention (although outside the province 

 of the museum) was a collection of Moro weapons captiu'ed by men of the 

 Twenty-fifth Infantry, U. S. A., in the Philippines. It was presented by the 

 men of the regiment when vacating their station at Schofield Barracks, Oahu. 



LOANS. 



Among other things deposited in the Museum by the various interests 

 concerned, were two cocoanut fibre caskets ( PI. I ) , believed to contain the 

 bones of Liloa, king of Hawaii about 1500 A. D., and Lonoikamakaliiki, a 

 great grandson who reigned later. Examples of this form of l)ody encasing 

 have not been observed before and undoul:)tedly are extremely rare. They 

 will be described in a later puljlication. 



A feather cape (PI. II) and three lei (ornamental strings of feathers) 

 which were taken to Xew England in 1822 by Mrs. Lucia Ruggles Holman, 

 one of the earliest missionaries, were lent l)y the present owner, a descendant. 

 The cape was given liy Queen Kaahumanu to Mrs. Holman, probably for 

 her daughter, claimed to be the first white child born in the Hawaiian 

 Islands. It is remarka1)ly well preserved, tlie feathers showing very little 

 wear. The colors are yellow (00), red ( iiwi, ) and black (00), and the 

 measurements are: length of back, 355mm.; length of fronts: right 272, 

 left 260 ; greatest width 820. 



PURCHASES. 



A collection of stone implements made by Mr. H. Schullz, during his 

 residence of a quarter of a century on tlie island of Kauai, was the most; 

 important purchase of tlie year. It consisted of eighty-five items, whicli 

 brought several new forms to our knowledge. 



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