NOTES ON THE TECHNIQUE. 



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anced in the middle of the back and there is no expectation that it should be so in front. 

 Let the two designs show the results; Figs. 51 and 52. However it might have pleased 

 the old Hawaiians, and that it did is shown by the many examples that have survived, 

 this misfit that a geologist would call a "fault" is not pleasing to the modern eye. 

 It is shown in the Pauahi cape (I, p. 60, Fig. 53), the Reis cape (VII, PI. Ill), a 

 Kamehameha cape (I, p. 451, Fig. 18). Some of these are certainly old, others of more 

 modern date showing that the oddity was not merely a passing fancy. 



FIG. 52. ADJUSTED FRONT OF KEKAULIKE CAPE, FIG. 45. 



The second point, the covering of the war-gods is well shown in the representa- 

 tion of the front and profile of the Kukailimoku in this Museum that appeared in the 

 first part of this Feather Work as Fig. 21, a small woodcut from a photograph taken 

 in 1865 by the author when the idol was in the cabinet of Oahu College, and in a toler- 

 able state of preservation. A comparison of the two illustrations will show that the 

 rather severe expression of the original has given place to an almost despairing coun- 

 tenance; the net has been torn or loosened and despoiled of its fine red feathers, which 

 were abundant sixty years ago. The consolation for this ruination is the greater 



