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home by Vancouver and now in the Bishop Museum.' It will be noticed that in Fig. 6 

 the network to which the feathers were attached still remains on the body of the mahiole. 

 The number of this pattern of mahiole found in museums would seem to indicate that 

 they might have been the insignia of chiefs of the second rank. Such helmets were 

 strong and a much better protection to the head of the warrior than the often fantastic 

 structures, now a favorite model for the costumer of the modern pageant. The origin 

 of this more common form is fully explained in the first volume of Memoirs. It certainly 

 did not hark back to the ancient Greeks. 



Of the ahuula in this collection no separate photograph of the cloak displayed 

 on the model already figured was received, but it is not difficult to make out the pattern 

 from the two figures given. It is in fairly good condition and of large size. The smaller 

 capes are hardly so well preserved, but the patterns are more distinctly shown: yellow 

 and red with often black spots on the neck or front edge. 



Figs. 4 and 5 show a red cloak of ordinary size (although it looks longer from 

 the way it is disposed on the figure), with a broad border of yellow 00; two yellow cres- 

 cents are below the middle, and a spherical triangle of yellow touches the middle of the 

 neck border, with half similar triangles on either side. This cloak >is in better preserva- 

 tion than the mahiole on the same model. 



Fig. 8 shows a red cape with two small yellow crescents, a border of yellow triangles 

 with an angle introrse, and one of the same form and color on each front edge. This 

 cape is badl}^ eaten, whether by the tooth of Time or some other is not important. 



Fig. 9. A cape of red with two yellow semicrescents on the front borders, and 

 a graduated yellow band around the base, of which the width at the back is twice that 

 of the front. The neck border is 3'ellow while the front borders are too far destroyed 

 to determine the proportion of yellow and red. 



Fig. 10. One of the capes worn over the shoiilder for convenience in battle for 

 wielding club or hurling spear. It was not of a kind to mark chiefly rank. In shape 

 it much resembles the Maori cape of New Zealand, and is made of black and white 

 feathers of the common fowl. The curious border of matting which is sewed on (appar- 

 ently since the cloak was used) is very puzzling. It would seem to render the use of 

 the cape in battle impossible, and I have wondered whether the similar cape in the 

 Vienna Museum, No. 70, I, p. 76, which is also from Cook's last voyage will not show 

 us that such a cover was not unusual. The extreme width is 40 inches. I had no speci- 

 men of the Red-tailed Tropic Bird {Phacfhon nibricauda) with which to compare the 

 feathers, and here where the bird-skins are abundant, I have not the cape: the white 

 feathers are probably Tropic Bird.' 



'Memoirs B. P. Bishop Museum, I, p. 5, fig. 2. Still another now in the K. K. Naturhistorische Hofmuseum, 

 Vienna, from Cook's collection and even more closely resembling this one in Petrograd, is shown in the same volume, 

 p. 43, fig. 35. See also Occasional Papers, I, pi. iii, 5. 



^See Notes and Corrections at the end of this Memoir. 



