Hawaiian Jl'ickcr Hehiiels. 



71 



still preserve them. The late King Kalakana described to me such images he claimed 



to have seen in a cave in the cliff above Kealakekua 

 Bay. There are still in existence, however, a num- 

 ber of smaller images, notably those of the war god 

 Kukailimoku, some of which have been figured and 

 described in the first volume of these Memoirs. 

 These consisted of a head and neck of ieie basket 

 work, often ver}' neatl}- made, which was covered 

 with a closeh' fitting net of olona fibre, to which 

 were attached the red, 3'ellow and black feathers 

 which distinguished the god. 



The helmets of the ancient chiefs are even 

 more widel3' distributed through the principal mu- 

 seums of Europe and America. Some of these are 

 made in a comparatively rough manner, as the 

 wicker work was to be covered with feathers, while 

 others were finished specimens of basket work. 

 Illustrations of both classes have been given in the 

 Memoir on Ancient Hawaiian Feather Work,"" and 

 Figs. 70 and 71 maj' here repeat examples of them 



for convenience. The first. Fig. 70, which is in the Australian Museum, Sydney, N. S. W., 



was once covered with feathers, and is made 



firmly of a braided strudfure ingeniousl}^ 



adapted to the irregular shape of the helmet. 



The other. Fig. 71, was beautifull}- woven in 



the manner of the best baskets and was worn 



without the feathery decoration. Others, ap- 



parentl}' intended to remain featherless, are 



in Berlin, London, Paris and Cambridge, 



Mass. I have not examined all the sub- 

 structures of the feather helmets figured {loc. 



cit?j^ but as all in this Museum are of the 



same material I infer that it was generally 



used for these images and helmets. 



WICKER WORK HKI.MET. 



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FIG. 71. HEI.MET OF IEIE. 



Fern Stems. — Although among the 

 Hawaiians fern stems were not in common use, they served for small and ornamental 



"Memoirs B. P. Bishop Museum, Vol. I. No. i. 



