30 B RICH AM ON HA W All AN FEA THER WORK. 



Museum, but I find uo additional information on the photograph sent me. Of the other 

 fine specimens in this Museum I have no photographs, but one formerly in London 

 was figured in the Memoirs of this Museum, Vol. I, p. 71, Fig. 94. The excellent steel 

 case in which these feather specimens are kept has already been mentioned. 



THE REIS CAPE. 



This is a genuine old cape of iiwi and 00 feathers. The network is in good order 

 consisting of a number of radial sections not always of the same mesh although not 

 varying greatly. Unfortunately, while the colors are fairly preserved, the feathers 

 have suffered from insects to some extent, as is generally the case in private collections. 

 It has been in the possession of Mrs. Manuel Reis of Honolulu for some years. 



The measurements are: breadth 27.5 inches; depth on back 12 inches, on front 

 9 inches. The not uncommon arrangement on Hawaiian capes of transposing colors 

 where the edges come together in front is seen here where the yellow half triangles 

 meet the black. The body of the cape is iiwi red: on this are three crescents of yellow 

 separated by a bipronged crescent of black. The base has a border of yellow, the front 

 and neck border is of alternate red and yellow. Plate HI shows well the scarlet iiwi 

 and yellow 00 feathers as well as the deep black of the body feathers of the 00. 



MALO OF KAUMUALII. 



It has been suggested that some explanation of the persons for whom the ahuula 

 are named (when the name is not merely that of the present owner) should be given to 

 the reader of this brochure. It will be noted by those who have followed the account of 

 these relics of old Hawaiian art given in the pages that have already appeared, that 

 seldom are we able to trace the original owner or the chiefs of distinction who may have 

 inherited, captured in combat, or received in token of friendship or gratitude the cloak 

 or cape in question. In the present case we can turn to the names of a number of dis- 

 tinguished Hawaiians who are connected with the malo during parts of its existence. 

 Although the author does not pretend to be familiar with Hawaiian genealogies, that 

 most intricate and uncertain of native historical matters, he can at least appeal to the 

 best authority we have, Fornander.' 



It is not necessary to go back beyond the descendant of the renowned Kualii,* 

 Kamakahelei who was Queen (Moi) of Kauai when Cook arrived at Waimea in January, 

 1778. Her first husband was Kaneoneo who was killed on Oahu about 1785-6, and whose 

 shin-bone forms the ktimu of a famous kahili handle in the Bishop Museum (No. 24). 

 With Kaneoneo Kamakahelei had two daughters, one of whom Kapuaamohu became one 

 of the wives of Kaumualii and grandmother of the late Queen Kapiolani. At the time 

 of Cook's visit Kamakahelei had another husband the celebrated Keaokulani younger 

 brother of Kahekili, Moi of Maui. With Keaokulani Kamakahelei had a son Kaumualii. 

 The father was killed at the battle of Kukiiahu, Oahu, November, 1794, two years after 

 the visit of Vancouver who noticed the young prince as about fourteen years old (he was 



'The Polynesian Race, II, 297. "I!. P. B. M. Memoirs, IV, 2H, 369. 



