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BRTGHAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



crater, are many stone constrnctions iised in worship or in tlie propitiation of the 

 deities of sea, wind, fishing and liunting, as both fishers and hunters had their peculiar 

 gods, images of which were found there a few years ago broken to fragments. 



Pueo. — The Hawaiian owl {Asia accipilri)ins^ Gurne}- ) was worshipped as a 

 god, but Davida Malo says in his so-called Hawaiian Antiquities, — but which is really 

 a compilation of native schoolboys' compositions, — that the feathers were used for 

 kahilis, the bird being caught in snares placed near its burrows. 





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FIG. 6. PUEO, HAWAIIAN OWL. 



Alala. — The Crow {Corz'its tj-opiais, Gmelin) is found only in the southwest 

 part of Hawaii. It was caught in snares. I have known one to be knocked down by 

 a stick, caught and kept eighteen months in captivity. The black feathers were used 

 for kahilis and for dressing idols much in the way common in New Guinea. 



The feathers of the barnyard fowl and of the gamecock were largely used for 

 common capes or cloaks, as were those of the duck, and in recent times those of the 

 latter were sometimes dyed red or yellow. Kahilis of such dyed feathers are in the 

 Bishop Museum from the collection of Queen Emma." Dyed feathers have been much 

 used for leis and for ahuula as well, so that it is very necessary to examine specimens 



"These dyed feathers are far from permanent in color, and in except on the two exhibition days each week quite in the dark, 



the past eight years four of these kahilis which were placed outside Two placed within the almost air-tight cases have preserved their 



the cedar cases in the Kahili room at the Museum have lost much of color better, 

 their color although never exposed to the diren"rays of the sun and 



