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thread) is shown in Figs. 59 and 60, the upper and under side of an Hawaiian kapa: 

 the lining is in two shades of red on a biiff ground. The rarest example that I can 

 show is a seam in a specimen of kapa without designated locality, but which I am in- 

 clined to consider Hawaiian/" is shown in Fig. 64. The kapa is buff with red and black 



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"Since the above was written, till doubt of its Hawaiian origin has been removed. In the curious coUection 

 of tapas brought home by Cook was a sniaU fragment from these islands, which I painted for the lower figure of 

 Plate W. I have since received from my friend Dr. Enrico H. Giglioli of Florence, Italy, a larger specimen of the 

 same pattern from the Cook relics in the Florentine Museum, which most fortunately has a similar seam (Figs. 63, 64). 

 This specimen has faded more than my small fragment, but the latter, having been preserved in book form and thus 

 shielded from light, still exhibits the colors shown on Plate W. 



