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BRIG HAM ON HA WAHAN FEA THER WORK. 



APIKAILA CAPE. 



This cape is very small but when used in funereal rites has a way of appearing 

 far more prominent than its size warrants. The measurements are: breadth 24.5 inches; 

 depth behind 7.5 inches, in front 6.5 inches. It is a black cape with tiny irregular 

 spots of red and yellow, and a narrow red and 3'ellow band near the neck. The name 

 is the Hawaiian form of Abigail. 



FIG. 50. THE KAMAKAHELEI CAPE. 



THE POOMAIKALANI CAPE. 



This is another of the larger capes, measuring in breadth 43 inches; in depth 

 behind 19 inches, and in front 14 inches. It is difficult to say whether the yellow or 

 red predominates, but with Plate IV the reader can perhaps decide. The double cres- 

 cent of black with yellow lining in the center is a most striking decoration, while the 

 black and yellow half-crescents above this fit in most admirably. The red is iiwi and 

 the yellow and black 00 feathers. The name Poomaikalani was that of a sister of 

 Queen Kapiolani, well known to the author, but it is quite possible that she was named 

 for some ancestor not recorded by Fornander. 



