REYNOLDS CAPE IN SALEM MUSEUM. 



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AHUULA IN THE PKABODV MITSKUM, SALEM. 



By the kinduess of Mr. L. W. Jenkins of the Peabody Museum I have received 

 a good photograph of a small cape lately presented to that Museum. Like so manj^ 

 other ahuula, its history is limited to the time it fell into foreign hands. In 1823 

 Stephen Reynolds went to the Hawaiian Islands and for thirty years he led a curious 

 life married to an Hawaiian woman, and was sometime harbor master of Honolulu. 

 He returned to Essex County in 1854 bringing this cape among other specimens of native 



FIG. 26. THE CAVE NET NOW IN THE BISHOP MUSEUM COLLECTION. 



work. Stephen W. Phillips, Esq., a well-known citizen of Salem who was born in Hono- 

 lulu while his father was attorney-general there in the reign of Kamehameha V, presented 

 the Reynolds collection to the Museum. The basal color is yellow 00, the semicrescents 

 iiwi red with black dots on the front edge. The size is 23.5 inches extreme width, depth 

 of back 1 1.3 inches, of the front 7 inches. Judging from the photograph the little cape 

 is in good preservation, the net rather more open than usual in capes of this size. 



THE CAVE NET. 

 In an account of the contents of a fine burial cave on Hawaii (Meinoirs B. P. B. M., 

 Vol. II, p. 20), is given a brief account of a net in a very poor condition but still retain- 

 ing enough of its original shape to show that it was once a feather cape of the rectangu- 



