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Mass. He died in the early part of this century from exposure following shipwreck, 

 leaving no record of where he obtained the cloak. It now belongs to Mrs. L. P. M. 

 Curran, of Englewood, New Jersey. Length, 43 inches; front, 34 inches; neck, 22 

 inches; base, 114 inches; breadth, 82 inches; lower border, 4 inches. In good condi- 

 tion but with a hole perhaps made by a spear. Fig. 100. 



66. Cape of unusual form; at present consisting of a nae of olona with braided 

 cord on top and sides: to this are still attached some white feathers of the koae ula 

 \PhactIi(»i nihrhaiida\. Length, 22.8 inches; neck, 30.7 inches; breadth, 55.2 inches. 

 Supposed to have come from Cook's third voyage, and for many years exposed to the 

 ravages of light, dust and inseAs on a wall in the Florentine Anatomical Museum. 

 Dr. Giglioli has described the remains. ■*" The capes made from these most brilliant 

 white feathers must have been very splendid, but this is the only one whose remains I 

 have tracked. The plumage is far more satiny than that of P. cetherens. 





FIG. 99. 



FIG. 100. 



67. Cape, or rather the net of what was once a cape, on which traces of red 

 and 3'ellow feathers may be seen b}' help of a lens. Of course no pattern can be made 

 out. The upper margin is 33 inches; the base, 54.2 inches; length, 15.7 inches. Sup- 

 posed to have been brought to Europe on Cook's third voyage, and, like the preceding, 

 was many years attached to the walls of the old museum in Florence, where it lost all 

 its feathers.^' Both of these capes are now fullv appreciated and well cared for in the 

 Florence Ethnological jMuseum. 



68. Cape of iiwi with a narrow band of 00: apparently a fragment. In the 

 Ethnological Museum at Munich. 



69. Cape of 00 and iiwi: extreme width, 35 inches. As will be seen in the 

 figure, the pattern is peculiar. This and the two following numbers were among the 

 things brought from the Pacific bv Cook's companions, and they were bought in 

 London in 1806, bv the order of the Emperor Francis II., from the Parkin.son and 

 Leverian colle(?tions. Sydnev Parkinson was artist to Sir Joseph Banks during Cook's 

 first voyage, and his interest in the portions of Oceania then visited led him to collect 



*°Appinili itttorno ad UHii cnlh-zwiu- til Gn>h. Airfin'n f>nr I' A ntit)f>olt)s:ia f V Ettmlogia. 

 -t^See Giglioli, Imc, cil. 



