. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 42 liRIGHAM ON ifAlVAIlAN FRA7HER WORK, remarkable tliat so mail}' liclinets remain, as tliey were not so easily preserved or hidden from an etieiiiy as were the feather cloaks, but it will be seen by the following list that many arc still preserved iii nmsennis, while donbtless some few are still in private hands. LIST OF HKl.^IirrS OR MAHIOLK. f. i\Ialiiole of Ivannnialii, King of Kanai, who died May 26, 1822. This is the only helmet whose former owner is definitely known, a
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 42 liRIGHAM ON ifAlVAIlAN FRA7HER WORK, remarkable tliat so mail}' liclinets remain, as tliey were not so easily preserved or hidden from an etieiiiy as were the feather cloaks, but it will be seen by the following list that many arc still preserved iii nmsennis, while donbtless some few are still in private hands. LIST OF HKl.^IirrS OR MAHIOLK. f. i\Ialiiole of Ivannnialii, King of Kanai, who died May 26, 1822. This is the only helmet whose former owner is definitely known, and it is in most perfect preserva- tion, in fact it is precisely in the same condition as when last worn. It was given, with two feather capes ( Xos. 14 and 78 of the list) to the Rev. Sanincl Whitney, one of the first company of American missionaries, l)y Kaiimnalii when he w^as taken a state prisoner to Honolnln. Wx. Whitney, wht)se station was at Waimea, Kanai, was skilled in the. healing art and had been of considerable service to the king in tliat wa\-, and the royal prisoner, who snpposed he was going to his death, expressed liis acknowledgment b)^' this offering of what was perhaps his niDSt vaJnable personal property-. Preserved in the Whitney lumic for half a centnr}', it was sold on the death of Mrs, Whitney, iti 1872, Hon. Chas. R. Bishoj), then Minister of h'^oreign Affairs, pnrehasing it and giving it to tlie (lOvernment !\, from which colleelion it cainc to the Bishop Mnsenm after having l)een exliibitcd at tlie I*aris Exposition in 1S89, and in other places. The wicker work is finely made and ver}- snbstaniiaJ althongh light (it weighs 14 ounces); the l)od\' and sides of the crest ai-e covered with red iiwi feathers, the top of the crest is of yellow 00, and there are small patches of l)lack 00 on the front edge and a vellow spot over ea,ch car: tficse last do not show in the figure, Plate I,, which was made by Lowv in X'lcnna from \\ negative by the anth
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