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BRIG HAM ON HA WAHAN FEA THER WORK. 



THE COOK COLLECTION AT PETROGRAD. 



Unfortunately the photographs sent were not numbered but the descriptions may 

 identify them. The model which is supposed to represent an Hawaiian chief serves to 

 show the use of a number of articles in rather an incongruous association (Figs. 4 and 5). 

 For example, the cloak is worn in a somewhat unusual manner, the remains of a rather 

 uncomfortable feather lei surround his throat, his right hand holds a fan, his left a flj'- 

 flap kahili, a dancer's rattle of dog-tusks covers his right shank, and a bracelet of boar- 



FIGS. 6 AND 7. .NLAHIOLE OF THE LOW CREST, PETROGRAD. 



tusks encircles his left wrist; both helmet and lei show plainly the ravages of insects; 

 the handle of the small kahili is well made of alternate rings of whale ivory and ca 

 (tortoise-shell) disks. 



The object that first attracted attention in coming to the case containing the 

 Hawaiian exhibits was a perfectly black helmet of good form with a rising crest, but 

 wholly covered with black feathers apparently of the 00: it is the only black mahiole 

 that I have ever seen or read about; of course there was no history connected with this 

 specimen except its provenance from the Cook collection. Unfortunately no photograph 

 of this was sent, nor was the one on the model separately figured. Of the others we 

 have the two shown in Figs. 6 and 7, both badly stripped, while as I remember it the 

 black one was in good condition. The shape of No. 7 is not unlike the one brought 



