Three AhuulA r^describeD. i^ 



end of the pendant which Captain Wallis had displayed, and left flying ashore, the first 

 time that he landed at Matavai. This was what they told us; and we had no reason to 

 doubt it, as we could easily trace the remains of an English pendant. About six or 

 eight inches of the malo was unornamented; there being no feathers upon that space, 

 except a few that had been sent by Waheiadooa, as already mentioned. The priests 

 made a long prayer, relative to this part of the ceremony; and if I mistook not, they 

 called it the prayer of the tna/o. When it was finished, the badge of royalty was care- 

 fully folded up, put into the cloth, and deposited again upon the morai.^'' 



The remains of another similar cordon is in this Museum, No. 6921, slightly 

 longer than that of Kaumualii, and without feathers although many of the teeth remain; 

 fragments also of the former plumage are distinguishable by close examination, so firmly 

 were the shanks of the feathers bound to the net. This will be described by Mr. Stokes. 



THREE AHUULA REDESCRIBED. 



In the Memoir published in 1899 three ahuula were mentioned and diagrammati- 

 cally figured, of which we are now by the kindness of Director F. A. Lucas and Curator 

 George H. Sherwood of the American Museum in New York, enabled to give better illus- 

 trations, having received line photographs of the specimens in that great Museum. 



THE CHAPMAN CLOAK. 



Under No. 44 (No. 87 of the present list) was given a notice of the Chapman 

 cloak with measurements plotted from a water color sketch given to the author by the 

 late Professor Benjamin Sharp of Philadelphia: I am now able to give more exact meas- 

 urements by the kindness of Mr. Henry Chapman, son of the former owner of the cloak, 

 together with some additional notes furnished by Mr. Chapman. Extreme breadth, 103 

 inches; depth behind 53.5 inches, in front 46 inches; around the neck it is 22.5 inches 

 and around the bottom 128 inches. The cloak was taken from Honolulu to India in 

 the year 1826 by Charles Huffnagle, formerly Member of Congress, who was appointed 

 in that year United States Consul, the first one to British India, Calcutta. In a few 

 years he was made Consul General, which office he retained until his death. The cloak 

 was sold with his effects and later purchased by the senior Henry Chapman who died 

 in 1907. Mr. Chapman says that the mesh of the net is very fine and the feathers very 

 small and that the cloak is for sale. It was for some time on exhibition in the American 

 Museum where the accompanying picture was taken. 



THE KEARNEY CLOAK. 



A cloak of iiwi red, with broad basal border, two spherical triangles and four semi- 

 crescents of 00 yellow; the front narrow borders are also of yellow, while the neck band 

 alternates red and yellow. The dimensions are: breadth 96 inches; depth at back, 48.5 

 inches; in front 43 inches; the base measures 144 inches. It was given to the late Com- 

 modore Lawrence Kearney, U. S. N., by Kamehameha III on the occasion of the Commo- 



