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BRIG HAM ON HA WAHAN FEA THER WORK. 



Fig. II. A yellow cape with red ornameutation as shown in the figure. The 

 neck band was of red and yellow while the front bands were smaller and of yellow and 

 black. As will be seen on the figure the feathers are nearly stripped from the lower 

 portion of the cape. ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Sydney. 



This war cape in the very interesting collection of Cook relics in the Australian 

 Museum in Sydney was figured in the first volume of the Bishop Museum Memoirs and 



FIG. 12. CAPE, COOK COLLECTION, SYDNEY. 



is here repeated to show the variety of ahuula collected by Cook in the best period of 

 that manufacture. Petrograd, Vienna, Berne, London, Sydney and Wellington have 

 relics of that immortal expedition, while the Hawaiian Islands cannot show the smallest 

 cape that has returned to the place of origin. It seems a pity, but on the other hand 

 we possess finer feather work than any Cook was able to carry away, and ours is in far 

 better preservation than most of the others. 



Except for the neck band and front border the cape looks like a kiwi feather cape 

 from New Zealand, and has great resemblance to the fine kiwi cloak in the Bishop Museum, 

 No. 8579. Other similar war capes recorded in the list of Hawaiian ahuula appended 



