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Bishop Museum all the paraphernalia of an offering to a rude stone god, and the mat 

 is covered with Turke^'-red cotton, on one end of Avhich the god stands flanked by a 

 bottle of whiskey and one of gin, while offerings of awa root with fern and dracgena 

 leaves are before him, and intermingled are various ancient relics to bring to the mod- 

 ern kaliiiiia all the influence or luaiia of the ancient davs. Is it unreasonable to sup- 

 pose that a god, distinguished by the material always used in his construction, should 

 be placed on a mat of the same costh* feather work, either when deposited in the 

 sandluarv or when used as the object of prayers and supplications? Until I can see 

 some better use for these mats I must be allowed to appropriate them to the worship 

 of Kukailimoku. 



The two mats are made of very short red, j-ellow and black feathers attached to 

 rods which are bound together not unlike the strufture of some of the helmets. The 

 ornamentation is in transverse bands of various widths, either plain or elaborately 

 figured as may best be seen in the photographs which Mr. H. Oldland, of the British 

 Museum, has kindl}' made for me. The loose cords attached rather irregularly to each 

 end are not of sufficient strength to be used as fastenings. The length of the larger 

 one is 22^ inches, the breadth 14^2 inches; while the other is 22 inches long and 12 

 inches wide. The design seems much more IMexican than Hawaiian. 



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1. First I place the probable god of Kamehameha. This is 27 inches high over 

 all, while the crest is 4^ inches, and the diameter of the base of neck 9 inches; weight, 

 3 lbs. I oz. The frame is a compact basket work of ie-ie roots made in one piece and 

 strengthened by four hoops. This is closeh" covered with a net of olona, to which are 

 attached red feathers of the iiwi, except on the top of the crest and the base of the neck, 

 which are yellow 00, and the eyebrows, nostrils and two small scjuare spots two inches 

 behind the eyes (intended to mark ears), which are black 00. It is in good preserva- 

 tion except at the base of the neck. The dog teeth number 94, — 49 in the upper jaw 

 and 45 in the lower; the open space between is filled b^- a red feather tongue. The 

 teeth are broken at the base and bound in place by a firm cord about the middle, but 

 the points are intact. This head was hidden in a cave in Kona for many 3'ears, and at 

 last as its hold on the superstition of its kaliu or keeper weakened under the influence 

 of the new religion, it was brought as an offering to the missionary of the station, and 

 through him transferred in 1850 to the museum of the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions in Boston: from this collecftion it came to the Bishop 

 Museum by purchase. The eyes are thick pieces of pearl shell pierced through the 

 middle where a round knob of black wood is inserted in the manner shown in Fig. 

 29, B. Fig. 22, p. 32. 



2. A smaller head, shown in Fig. 21, which was engraved from a photograph 

 taken b}- the author in 1865 when the idol was in the cabinet of Oahu College at 



