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BRIG HAM ON HA WAN AN FEA THER WORK. 



The cape measures in extreme width 31 inches; depth on back, 13 inches; on front, 

 9.5 inches; circumference of the neck, 18 inches; and of base, 62 inches. The net is fine, 

 reinforced on neck and front with three-plj' cord sewn on; the short cords at the neck are 

 of the usual square braid olona, and about six inches long. The base color is iiwi red and 

 the border and ornaments as shown in the figure are of 00 yellow much faded as might 

 be expected from its long exposure. The figure shows the form and condition very well. 



FIG. 18. THE BEASLEY AHUULA. 



On page 108 of the Chichester Museum catalogue is the following entry: "Donor — His 

 Grace the Duke of Richmond; — presented, June 27, 1853. Cloak made of feathers from 

 the Sandwich Islands." This cloak is now in the collection of Mr. Harry G. Beasley 

 (Fig. 17), but there is nothing to directly connect it with the cape. The Duke had many 

 ethnological specimens. 



THE BEASLEY AHUULA. 



Among the private collections of England that of Mr. Harry G. Beasley of Abbey 

 Wood, Kent, is noteworthy and among his treasures are many from New Zealand and 

 other parts of Polynesia. He has long been engaged on a work of study and illustra- 

 tion of the fish-hooks of the Pacific. A few years since he obtained the cloak, illustra- 

 ted in Fig. 18, of a pattern resembling the Joy cloak (No. 16 in the list of ahuula, and 

 still the largest cloak known of Hawaiian manufacture), the eighteen circles of yellow 



