LIST OF AHUULA. 



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placed over the Queen's throne on public occasions. Length, 60 inches; width at 

 base, 144 inches; front edges, 50.7 inches. The nae is composed of more than thirty 

 pieces, of irregular form and varying fineness, Fig. 48, and the cloak seems to have 

 been made up of the ruins of many other fabrics much as the choice produdls of 

 Kashmir are fitted piece to piece of many an ancient shawl. The network is shown on 

 a larger scale in Plate XI. At the fall of the Hawaiian Monarch}- this, with Nos. i, 

 3 and 4, came to the Bishop Museum where it is numbered 6829. 



3. Cloak of iiwi with border, diamonds and triangles of 00. It formerly be- 

 longed to the cliief Kalanikauikalaneo, from wliom it came to the chief Charles 

 Kanaina, father of King Lunalilo, and after the death of Kanaina in 1878 it was 

 purchased by the Government for $1200. Length, 54.5 inches; front, 45 inches; 

 width at base, 148 inches. No. 6830, B. P. B. M. Fig. 49. 



FIG. 49. 



FIG. 50. 



4. Pa'u of 00, witli small triangles of red and black at the ends. This, the 

 only known example of a feather robe made for a woman," belonged to Nahienaena 

 the beloved sister of Kauikeaouli | Kamehamelia III. |, a princess well deserving such a 

 decoration. It is related that at a reception given to Lord Byron, H. B. M. N., in 1825, 

 the Princess was urged to wear this pa'u and at first refused on the ground that such 

 robes belonged to the heathen times. She was then a girl of ten years and would have 

 been almost concealed in this immense garment, which was 20 feet 8 inches long and 

 30 inches wide. vSince the death of the Princess, in 1836, this pa'u, cut in two and re- 

 united lengthwise, lias been used as a royal pall, last over the coffin of Kalakaua. 

 No. 6831, B. P. B. M. 



5. Cloak of 00 and iiwi, from London, without history. Length, 46 inches; 

 front, 40 inches; neck, 26 inches; base, 72 inches. No. 323, B. P. B. M. Fig. 50. 



6. Cloak of 00 with perhaps half of its surface covered with iiwi: not in perfect 

 preservation. Purchased in London for ^25. Histor}' unknown. Length, 48.5 inches; 

 front, 47 inches; base, 168 inches. No. 95S, B. P. B. M. Fig. 51. 



7. Cape of 00 and iiwi, dating from the time of Kamehameha I. Plate XV. 



^••It perhaps marks the transition from a war rulte. suitable onh' for warriors, to a state decoration and mark of high rank which the 

 feather garments assumed in later days. 



