74 B RICH AM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



her was the Museum, wheu this cloak particularly attracted her attention, and she ex- 

 pressed her surprise at finding such a treasure here, and at the same time begged of 

 the trustees of the Museum the loan of the garment for the purpose of exhibiting at 

 Paris at an exhibition which was then being held there. Upon the return of the cloak 

 the Queen made several presents to this Museum which are now to be seen there." 

 Length, 50.5 inches; front, 45 inches; across neck, 27 inches; base, 132 inches. Fig. 97. 



62. Cloak of iiwi with yellow 00 rhombs like No. 24. Length, 48 inches; base, 

 138 inches. This is in the Museum at Ipswich, and although I have been promised a 

 photograph bv the Curator this has not yet arrived. 



63. Cloak of 00 with eight triangles of iiwi almost equalling the surface of 

 the 00. The neck is occupied by three equilateral triangles, the apices downward, and 

 each side by two similar triangles in reverse position: a larger red triangle occupies 

 the center and beneath its point a red crescent stretches from side to side. This, with 



FIG. 97. FIG. 98. 



the following one, was once in the colle6lion of J. Th. Royer, Chef of the Department 

 of Art and Science in the Hague, and until 1795 an officer of the Dutch Judicial Court. 

 He died in 1808 and his collection was left to the Dutch Government, in whose 

 "Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden" it bore the number 492. The two specimens were long 

 forgotten and suffered greatly by the neglect. Herr J. D. E. Schmeltz, Director of the 

 Leiden Ethnological Museum, has described these ahuula,''* which are in his charge, 

 but the colored figure which he gives is completely restored and shows nothing of the 

 ravages of time. He does not give the dimensions, but as I remember it, it is of 

 medium size, not exceeding 44 inches in length. Fig. 98. 



64. Cape of the long green feathers of the Frigate bird, with a narrow cervical 

 and frontal border of alternating triangles of 00 and iiwi much eaten. From the Royer 

 Coll., No. 493, its history is identical with that of the preceeding specimen. Herr 

 Schmeltz has also described this.'" Length, 24 inches; breadth, 54 inches. The iwa 

 feathers are often supposed to be the tail-feathers of the cock. Fig. 99. 



65. Cloak of iiwi with basal border, eight crescents and six triangles of 00. 

 It was brought to the United States by Captain William Cunningham, of Cambridge, 



i^HduptliniiimaHld von den Sand'u'ich Itnrlii. fnti'i luititmali's Aychiv fitr Ethnologic, Bd. I.. 143. Taf. VIU. 

 y^Loc. cit.. p. 145. 



