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BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



Ernest Napela Parker and James Kehooalii Parker, all of whom gave it to tliis Museum. 

 No. B 1230. Although the great age of this cape is shown in the worn condition of the 

 feathers, the red color of the body is still clear; the crescent is of the yellow 00, as are 

 also the semicrescents, the latter with the upper edge black. The neck-border alter- 

 nates black and yellow. The extreme width is 28 inches, the depth on the back, 11.5 

 inches, on front 9.5 inches. The net is of fine mesh. 



FIG. 22. AHUULA OF KUAHALIULANI, B. P. B. M. 



THE ELGIN CAPE. 



Another cape which was merely a number in the earlier essay (97), has now a 

 more definite existence. Mr. W. F. Wilson of Honolulu writes me: 



"During my travels in Scotland in 1902, I visited the Elgin Public Museum and 

 noticed this cape. As I am interested in Hawaiian ethnology, I had a photograph 

 taken of it and now have pleasure in enclosing herewith a copy of same, which you 

 may care to have for your archives. The cape at date of my visit to the Museum was 

 in fair preservation and the ticket attached to it stated that it had been presented to 

 the institution by the Dowager Countess of Seafield. Whence or when she had obtained 

 it the ticket did not mention." 



Although we have no measurements it is not difficult to measure it by one of the 

 same pattern in this Museum formerly belonging to Queen Emma, No. 957 B. P. B. M., 

 and described and figured in Vol. I of the Memoirs, p. 60, fig. 56. The latter diagram 



