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Report of a 'Journey Around the World. 



LONDON. British Museum. Keeperof Britishand Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography, SirCharlesH. Read. Assistants, O. M. Dalton, T. A.Joyce. 



Hawaiian Islands. Seventeen feather cloaks and capes (the feather- 

 work has been fully described in the Memoirs of this Museum, I, pt. I >. 

 Two helmets, once feathered ( Meyrick collection); 4 helmets with feathers 

 in good condition; 2 helmets in fair condition (Vancouver collection); helmet 

 of wicker-work with detached crest; Kukailimoku (Leverian Museum); 4 

 ditto, one of them figured by Cook; many feather lei. Two rectangular feather 



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219. 



mats I Memoirs, I, PL VI; p. 438) possibly used by the kahuna or priest for a 

 rest for the idol; 3 large idols of wood; curious wooden idol with helmet: there 

 are no legs and it was perhaps carried on a pole as was the god Kukailimoku; 

 it is covered neatly with kapa like some idols from the Marquesas (Fig. 219). 

 Another wooden idol with the peculiar form of trimmed hair called nia/iio/e 

 (Fig. 220); wooden idol from Kailua (Fig. 14); female idol (Fig. 15;; stick 

 idol (Fig. 16). Wooden idol with wide mouth well armed with teeth and 

 with head slightly reverted ('Fig. 221). Wooden idol somewhat larger with 

 human hair ( Fig. 222 ); 2 idols of stone taken from Necker Island by officers 

 of H. M. S. Champion (Fig. 13); 2 wooden heads of images, probably idols; 

 aumakua; 5 kahili, small, with bone and tortoise-shell handles; 8 stone mir- 

 rors, good; 5 kupee or bracelets of boar-tusks, large (V. 1 ); 6 kupee with tor- 

 toise-shell; niho palaoa (W. Ellis); 7 common ditto, 1 with four small bone or 

 1 V. stands for Vancouver collection. [43^] 



