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B RICH AM ON HA WAHAN FEA THER WORK. 



AHUULA BELONGING TO HER MAJESTY LILIUOKALANI, FORMERLY QUEEN OF HAWAH. 



By the kindness of Her Majesty we have been allowed to examine and photo- 

 graph this cloak, and the illustration shows the distribution of iiwi red and oo yellow 

 and black. The red is so brilliant that I was inclined to think it apapane rather than 

 iiwi: it is often a puzzle for different specimens of each of these two birds show such 

 great variation in color that almost any shade of scarlet or crimson can be matched. 



FIG. l6. THE LILIUOKALANI CAPE. 



The dimensions of the cape are: extreme width, 33.5 inches; depth at the back 16 inches, 

 at the front 10.5 inches. The network is in one piece and uniform. 



In the absence of color in the illustration (Fig. 16) it will be well to specify more 

 fully. The divided crescent is black with a filling of yellow; the two semicrescents 

 above this are red as are also the triangles on the lower front. The neck band consists 

 of twelve black and eleven yellow patches; similar patches ornament the front borders 

 arranged in the following order from the top: red, yellow, black, yellow, red, yellow, black, 

 yellow, red, black. The strings are of the square braid olona. The Queen inherited it 

 from her mother Keohokalole, and of its earlier history we have nothing authentic. 



