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BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



Since the above description was in type I have received from the Honorary Sec- 

 retary of the Elgin and Morayshire Literary and Scientific Association (Instituted in 

 1836), H. B. Mackintosh, F. S. A., Scot., through my friend J. Edge-Partington, Esq., a 

 full-sized sketch of the cape, which seems to be a tracing, and this gives the measure- 

 ments less than those of the Queen Emma cape: extreme breadth 27.5 inches; depth 

 behind 13.5 inches and in front 7 inches. The sketch also shows that the neck-band 

 was in alternate red and black the former three times the width of the black. Mr. 

 Mackintosh also kindly searched the Association records and local newspaper files, but 



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FIG. 25. THE REYNOLDS CAPE, PEABODY MUSEUM, SALEM. 



obtained no more than the present label contains and which seems to have been renewed 

 and amplified since 1902 when Mr. Wilson saw it. It reads: "Feather cape of Liliuo- 

 kalani Queen of the Sandwich Islands. The yellow and black are feathers of the Moho 

 nobilis, while the scarlet feathers are of the plumage of the Vestiaria coccinea. Both 

 these birds have been extinct for many years now, and this cape or 'ahuula' to give it 

 its native name, is undoubtedly unique and valuable. Presented by the Countess 

 Dowager of Seafield Castle in 1892." 



How the name of the late ex-queen became attached to this label is not stated. 

 She visited England with Queen Kapiolani at the time of the Queen Victoria Jubilee 

 in 1887, but we have no record that this cape ever belonged to Liliuokalani. It is 

 hardly necessary to add that the birds furnishing the scarlet, black and yellow feathers 

 are not at the present writing extinct. 



