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BRIG HAM ON HA WAHAN FEA THER WORK. 



facility for showing the exact construction of this potent deity. I do not care to go 

 into more detail than to say the substructure is rather rude basketwork while the 

 olona nae to which the feathers were attached was carefully fitted over this in such a way 

 as to cover the "bones" with more or less success. All this the two figures will show. 



FIGS. 53 AND 54. KUKAILIMOKU IN THE BISHOP MUSEUM. FRONT AND BACK. 



It should be noted that Ellis speaks of a wooden Kukailimoku with the helmet, 

 and covered with feathers, in his description of the heiau of Puukohola, dedicated by 

 Kamehameha to his god at Kawaihae, Hawaii; this was the last biakini built on these 

 islands, and the Rev. William Ellis visited it only thirty years after its construction 

 and found it in good condition with bones of the later sacrifices still scattered on the 

 platform, and there were many people still alive who remembered the dedication sacri- 

 fice when Kukailimoku was brought in. 



