THE AHUULA IN THE WELLINGTON COLLECTION. 



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shipwreck, leaving no record of where he obtained the cloak. It came into the posses- 

 sion of ]\Irs. L. P. M. Curran of Englewood, New Jersey, and is now in the American 

 Museum, New York. The measurements are: extreme breadth, 82.5 inches; depth 

 behind, 42.5 inches, front 34 inches; neck circumference 22 inches, base 114 inches; 



FIG. 36. THE KEARNY CLOAK. 



lower border 4 inches. In good condition but with a spear hole under the right arm; 

 this was repaired before the present photograph was taken. 



THE AHUULA IN THE WELLINGTON COLLECTION. 



The ahuula in the Dominion Museum in Wellington consist of two cloaks and 

 a cape of very unusual form; two mahiole, a hat and a Kukailimoku. The hat has 

 been described but the cloaks and capes have been held awaiting the measurements so 

 important in the description, and the mahiole and feather god have kept them company. 



