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B RICH AM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



FIG. 14. CAPE AT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TVNE. 



the design (Fig. 16) as well as the following measnremeiits are from the description 

 given to Mr. Walcott b}- Peleioholani and are of course onl}- approximate. They are 



worth recording as differing 

 from any robes described. 

 Length, about 4 feet 9 

 inches ; neck measurement 

 about 2 feet ; circumference 

 at bottom about 5 feet 8 

 inches. It is a matter of 

 tradition that 27,000 birds 

 were captured to furnish 

 the feathers for this cloak. 

 In the left side were seven 

 spear holes that were never 

 patched, and about which 

 were blood stains. Keeau- 

 moku was severely wound- 

 ed in this battle, and it was 

 rather a fanc}- with the old chiefs to retain the honorable scars in the ahuula, as in the 

 cloak given hy Kamehameha to Vancouver to be taken to England for King George. 



107. An interesting 

 cloak is in the Museum at 

 Dover, England. It was 

 given to this museum by 

 General William Miller, 

 well known in Hawaiian 

 history as a British rep- 

 resentative at Honolulu. 

 The cloak was probablv 

 given to him bv Kameha- 

 meha III., who did much 

 to scatter the ahuula 



which had been accumu- 



. , , . .n • PIG. IS- EDGE- PARTINGTON CAPE, 



lated by his victorious 



father, who apparently swept the island of Hawaii clean of these royal robes. This 



cloak is 5 feet 9 inches long ; 2 feet 8 inches across the upper part ; 8 feet 3 inches 



across the lower part, and 10 feet 7 inches round the bottom. The pattern in 00 and 



iiwi feathers is not unusual, and the robe seems in good preservation. I purchased 



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