THE KEKAULIKE CAPE. 



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field like flashes of lightning: there is also a yellow border, rather narrow; three curved 

 triangles on either front edge, those on the left being yellow with an intermediate black 

 one, while on the other the order of colors is reversed, the yellow being in the middle 

 so that when worn the edges brought the two colors together. In front of these triangles 

 is a narrow border of yellow, red and black. The arrangement is so peculiar that a 

 diagram has been made to show the two edges in juxtaposition. Fig. 52. The feathers 

 about the neck have gone to some extent and their place has been filled by a red tape 



FIG. 45. THE KEKAULIKE CAPE. 



added in modern times. Below the neck-band are two narrow tapering stripes, that on 

 the left of black, that on the right of yellow, both considerably worn. 



The name Kekaulike is celebrated in Hawaiian history. Perhaps the king of 

 Maui of that name is the greatest, but there were other chiefs, and as the name in Hawaii- 

 an may be either male or female, there were chiefesses, among them the mother of 

 Kalanianaole and Kawananakoa. 



By the kindness of Hon. J. Kalanianaole the following note from the Diary of the 

 late Queen Kapiolani, whose heir he is, is added to the description of this cape: "One 

 red ahuula presented by Lot Kamehameha in 1857 to E. Faulkner, Paymaster of 



Memoirs B. P. Bishop Museum. Vol. VII.— 4. 



