MAHIOLE IN THE WELLINGTON COLLECTION. 



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Following tlie hat in this collection in the Dominion Mnsenm in Wellington, N. Z., 

 we may place the two mahiole shown in Fig. 41 which are of the form often illustrated 

 and are in remarkably good condition for such specimens which more often than not 

 have moulted or lost most of their feathers. One seems from the photograph to be 

 red with a yellow crest, the other mostly yellow with a red edging in front. (The articles 

 figured between the helmets are bracelets of boar-tusks, a favorite ornament of chiefs.) 



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FIG. 41. MAHIOLE IN THE DOMINION MUSEUM. 



There is in this collection one more specimen of the feather war-gcd, Kukaili- 

 moku to add to the half a score already described. The present specimen looks as if it 

 had been in battle and was not pleased with the experience. While it is not so compli- 

 cated in structure as the god shown in the plate in Cook's third voyage it is in form like 

 the one in the Bishop Museum, figured in the Memoirs of this Museum, I, Fig. 22, p. 32. 

 It is hard to understand the absence of a helmet on some of these war-gods, and the pres- 

 ence of human hair as in the Oxford and British Museum specimens described in the 

 volume referred to. It has been suggested that these unarmed specimens represent the 

 wife of the god, but no such partner is mentioned in the native legends, although the wives 

 of some other gods are particularly mentioned. Surely the Vienna specimen, I, Fig. 23, 



