COOK RELICS IN WELLINGTON, N. Z. 



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to this Supplement, are No. 26 which is very like, 33, 34, 35, all in British Museum, 

 64 in Leiden, and 94 in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., this being No. 73. 

 It seems that the long greenish-black feathers of the Frigate Bird {Eregafa aquild) used 

 in these capes and not well cared for are apt to become stringy and hardly recognizable. 



THE FEATHER HAT. 



In 1896 I found in Vienna a curious hat, evidently of foreign design which seemed 

 authentically traced to Cook's last voyage: the feathers were few and the relic had 

 eventually reached a safe port from very stormy seas. It was the only one of its kind 



FIG. 13. FEATHER HAT. 



so far found in a rather careful search for Hawaiian feather work in the museums of 

 the world, and it was so evidently an attempted imitation of a liaole hat in genuine 

 Hawaiian feather work that I attached little importance to it, and indeed it was hardly 

 sufficiently preserved to form a definite opinion of its origin and object. Wheu another 

 of these hats was foiind in the collection of Cook relics now in the Dominion Museum 

 in Wellington, N. Z.,' all doubt as to its manufacture was removed and the good con- 

 dition of the second specimen permitted a full examination, and by the kindness of Mr. 



'These articles were originally in the Bvillock Musenin, Ivondon, and the Dominion Museum has a most interest- 

 ing priced sale catalogue of the contents of this museum sold on the block. Most of the Cook relics were gathered 

 into the present collection through private hands. The capes, etc., will be figured later in this essay. 



