FEATHER CLOAKS AND CAPES. 



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so the chief who killed or captiired his enemy took as spoils his feather cloak, helmet 

 or lei. It then became a trophy and a thing to be displayed on public occasions to the 

 conqvieror's fellows, and this use is still retained, in a modified form, among the 

 Hawaiians. In the latest royal funeral, that of the lamented Kapiolani, widow of 

 Kalakaua, feather capes were displayed to mark^rank, if not a more bloody conquest. 



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FIG. 47. FEATHER C.^PE. 



Few of the ahuula still extant but have passed from owner to owner by violence in the 

 olden time, by the generosity for which the Hawaiian is noted in the days succeeding 

 the conquest of the Islands and the cessation of wars. 



In wearing cloak or cape the usual fastening was a firmly Ijraided collar of olona 

 fibre continued at the upper corners of the garment into cords of square braid long 

 enough to tie securely, or to make into such a knot as to readily permit escape if ex- 

 igencies required, at the cost of the cloak. In a few cases tags of feather work were 



