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KAPIOLANI CAPE. 



The Other Kapiolani cape is quite different in shape and design. It bears on the 

 net the marks of a burn repaired at some unrecorded time. As will be seen by the meas- 

 urements it is smaller than the last, the extreme width being 27 inches; the depth on 

 back 13.5 inches, and in front 8 inches. The base is red iiwi, with 00 yellow border and 

 decorations, while pendent hangs a black lei as a fanciful afterthought in the decoration. 

 The neck-band and front borders red, the latter with two black spots on either side. 



The four capes of the Kapiolani collection falling to the lot of Prince Kawanana- 

 koa (since deceased) and now held in trust for his son David Kawananakoa a minor, have 



FIG. 47. KAPIOLANI CAPE. 



been kindly loaned by Mr. John F. Colburn, the trustee. One of these bears the name 

 Poomaikalani (a sister of Kapiolani was thus named), one was made by the order of 

 Kalakaua and bears his name, one is named Kamakahelei, the fourth is called Apikaila. 



THE KALAKAUA CAPE. 



This cape is decidedly of the crescent style. It is of large yellow feathers (00) , with 

 two crescents of red iiwi on the sides with a similar one of black between them, and two 

 semicrescents on the front. The borders of front and neck are of raised yellow feathers. 

 The dimensions are: breadth 34 inches; depth behind 13 inches and in front 10 inches. 

 This cape was made during the reign of Kalakaua by Mrs. John Ena (^nce Maria Lane) , and 

 is thus the latest of the capes here described and there will be no need to search the mele for 

 any legendary history; the birds alone wore it before this King. Some of the birds were 

 brought alive to the palace aviary to furnish a portion of the feathers, and Queen Liliuo- 

 kalani kept a number there during her reign, feeding them the juice of the sugar-cane. 



