Director's Aruuial Report. \i 



Mr. J. F. G. Stokes, Curator of Polynesian Ethnology, reports 

 as follows: 



"Of our accessions the finest gift of the year was that of Mrs. 

 Agnes H. B. Judd, who gave us the collection of the late A. Francis 

 Judd, chief justice of the supreme court, which had been here on loan 

 deposit for fourteen 3-ears. The most valuable specimen was the 

 feather cape which at one time belonged to Kaumualii (described 

 in Memoir I, p. 62). Another interesting specimen was a small 

 to medium poi bowl of the unusual tall form, which was reputed 

 to have belonged to Kalaimamahu, brother of Kamehameha I. 



"Another generous donor was the Rev. W. D. Westervelt. 

 For a long time past no annual list has appeared without this 

 gentleman's name appearing among the givers, in my department 

 as well as in others of the Museum. During the year 19 14 the 

 Dire(5tor recommended that appreciation of Mr. Westerv^elt's in- 

 terest be shown by the presentation by the Trustees of the Museum 

 publications. This was approved and a formal presentation made 

 in person by the Diredlor and this Curator. The result was very 

 surprising and unlooked for, as, in order to demonstrate his con- 

 tinued good will towards the Museum, he stripped his house of 

 almost all his remaining specimens and loaded up the car. 



"The Museum has several good friends on the Molokai Ranch. 

 The manager, Geo. P. Cooke, and assistant manager, James 

 Munro, have both visited ni}^ room at the Museum and received 

 what instru(5lion I could give them in collecfling. They have re- 

 ceived further instrucftion in the field from the Curator of Pulmo- 

 nata, whose investigations of the fossil beds have taken him 

 through the regions inhabited by the old Hawaiians. These gentle- 

 men and their friends have taken a real pleasure in gathering 

 specimens for the Museum and have sent in large collecftions made 

 independently and in company with the Curator of Pulmonata. 



"Among the other gifts should be speciall}- mentioned that 

 of seventeen kapas from Kona, from Mrs. CM. Cooke; piece of 



original hieroglvphic tablet from Easter Island, made by Mrs. 



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