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BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



remarkable that so many helmets remain, as they were not so easily preserved or 

 hidden from an enemy as were the feather cloaks, but it will be seen by the following 

 list that many are still preserved in ninsenms, while dcnibtless some few are still in 

 private hands. 



LIST OF HELMETS OR MAHIOLE. 



I. Mahiole of Kanmnalii, King of Kaiiai, who died May 26, 1S22. This is the 

 only Iielniet whose former owner is definitely known, and it is in most perfect preserva- 

 tion, in fact it is preciseh- in the same condition as when last worn. It was given, with two 

 feather capes ( Nos. 14 and 78 of the list) to the Rev. Samuel Whitney, one of the first 

 compan}' of American missionaries, by Kanmnalii when he was taken a state prisoner 

 to Honolulu. Mr. Whitney, whose station was at Wainiea, Kauai, was skilled in the 



FIG. 33. 



FIG. 34. 



FIG. 35. 



healing art and had been of considerable service to the king in that way, and the ro^-al 

 prisoner who supposed he was going to his death, expressed his acknowledgement by 

 this offering of what was perhaps his most valtiable personal propert}'. Preserved in 

 the WHiitney home for half a century, it was sold on the death of Mrs. Whitney, in 

 1872, Hon. Chas. R. Bishop, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, pi;rchasing it and giving 

 it to the Government Museum, from which collec^tion it came to the Bishop Museum 

 after having been exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1889, and in other places. The 

 wicker work is finely made and very substantial although light (it weighs 14 ounces); 

 the body and sides of the crest are covered with red iiwi feathers, the top of the crest 

 is of yellow 00, and there are small patches of black 00 on the front edge and a j^ellow 

 spot over each ear: these last do not show in the figure, Plate I., which was made b}' 

 Lowy in Vienna from a negative by the author. The extreme height, as shown in 

 the plate, is 15^2 inches; width, 6% inches, and depth 10 inches. Museum No. 959. 

 The feathers are attached diredlly to the frame without the usual nae. 



