THE BE AS LEY CLOAK. 



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00, and the basal border of the same, while the body of the cloak is iiwi red. The meas- 

 urements are: extreme breadth 8 feet 2 inches; depth of back 4 feet 7 inches; front 4 feet 

 I inch; the neck line measures 2 feet 4 inches; the basal line 9 feet 6 inches. As the 

 figure shows it is much worn. There is no history attached to the specimen prior to its 

 arrival in England. Like the Fuller cape it was obtained from the Chichester Museum 

 and was presented to that Museum by the Duke of Richmond, June 27, 1853. 



CLOAK IN BISHOP MUvSKUM, NO. 958. 



Although this cloak was enumerated in the Feather Work of Volume I of the 

 Memoirs, it was represented merely by a diagram, and it seems worthy of a more com- 



FIG. 19. CLOAK NO. 958 B. P. B. M. 



plete illustration, although nothing more is known of its origin. Its remarkable length, 

 9 feet 4 inches, while its depth on back is 50 inches and in front 48, the iiwi red of the 

 figures occupying nearly half of the surface, make this garment one of the most attrac- 

 tive that we have seen when placed on the shoulders of a tall muscular warrior. It has 

 evidently been used to considerable extent as the feathers are worn in places almost to 

 showing the underlying net, but otherwise it is in good preservation, and the red is very 

 little faded. As stated in the previous account it was purchased in London for twenty- 

 five pounds; its history will probably forever remain unknown. Compare this with the 

 Colgate cape. Fig. 115, p. 81, Memoirs, Vol. I: in both the motif is the same, keeping 

 in view the effect when worn. 



