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I96. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE. 



quarters of a century, and the Hawaiian Islands are not in the 

 South Pacific. I do not wish to be too critical, but where do the 

 islanders weave mats for roofing houses as mentioned in the guide? 

 Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian matters are mingled as 

 they seldom have been in nature. The statements about the feather 

 cloak of Hawaii exhibited are incorrect, as the greater portion of 

 the cloak is of red feathers, the commonest and cheapest of all, as 

 the iiwi, which produces them, is found all over the Hawaiian 

 group, and it is only the orange feather of the mamo of which the 

 great value may be predicated, and there are none of the feathers 

 of this extinct bird in the cloak exhibited. Red feather cloaks 

 were by no means confined to the priesthood, nor yellow (of the 00) 

 to royalty. The Hawaiian feather garments were kept in the dark 

 except on the rare occasions of their public use, or they would 

 have faded, as they do in the museums where they are displayed 

 in full light. 



The Robley collection of mokoed Maori heads is the most com- 

 plete in the world ; but the specimen of Maori cast brandishing 



his mere or patu on a mass of poxinamu does scant justice to the 



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