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BRIGHAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. 



lar form worn over one shoulder in battle, and the few quills remaining attached to the 

 net show signs of red feathers. The cave was a dry one and well protected, and the carv- 

 ings and other wooden objects were well preserved, which leads me to suspect that this 

 garment was used as covering for a corpse which had disappeared but in decomposition 

 entailed the same fate on the cover. The measurement of the net is as follows: breadth 

 19 inches, depth sides 9 and 9.7 inches. The condition of the net precludes exact meas- 

 urements. On the top is a four square cord of olona, much worn, with remains of strings. 



FIG. 27. STEEN BILLE CAPE AT COPENHAGEN. 



Originally it was a strong, serviceable garment. From the choice articles which were 

 found in this cave it cannot be supposed that a worn-out or fragmentary ahuula was 

 deposited with the dead and the watching aumakua. This net with the two aumakua 

 are now the property of the Museum, the net No. 9070. It is unfortunate that more note 

 was not made of the disposition of articles in this interesting cache; the insufficiency of 

 light and the difficulty of removing so many objects must be sufficient excuse. 



THE STEEN BILLE CAPE, COPENHAGEN. 



The beautiful yellow and green feather cape mentioned in the Report of a Journey 

 Around the World in 1896" as very interesting but on that visit inaccessible for close ex- 

 amination or measurement, was on a second visit in 19 12, put most obligingly in our hands 

 for examination as mentioned in the report of that visit ' and it has seemed best to repro- 



' Occasional Papers, I, i, p. 24. 



^Occasional Papers, V, 5, p. 198, fig. 46, p. 199. 



