. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. FIG. 97. FIG. 98. the following one, was once in the collection of J. Th. Royer, Chef of the Department of Art and Science in the Hague, and until 1795 an officer of the Dutch Judicial Court. He died in 1808 and his collection was left to the Dutch Government, in whose **Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden^^ it bore the number 492. The two specimens were long forgotten and suffered greatly by the neglect. Herr J. D. E. Schmeltz, Director of the Leiden Ethnological Museum, has described
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. FIG. 97. FIG. 98. the following one, was once in the collection of J. Th. Royer, Chef of the Department of Art and Science in the Hague, and until 1795 an officer of the Dutch Judicial Court. He died in 1808 and his collection was left to the Dutch Government, in whose **Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden^^ it bore the number 492. The two specimens were long forgotten and suffered greatly by the neglect. Herr J. D. E. Schmeltz, Director of the Leiden Ethnological Museum, has described these ahuula,^^ which are in his charge, but the colored figure which he gives is completely restored and shows nothing of the ravages of time. He does not give the dimensions, but as I remember it, it is of medium size, not exceeding 44 inches in length. Fig. 98. 64. Cape of the long green feathers of the Frigate bird, with a narrow cervical and frontal border of alternating triangles of 00 and iiwi much eaten. From the Royer Coll., No. 493, its history is identical with that of the preceding specimen. Herr Schmeltz has also described this.^'^ Length, 24 inches; breadth, 54 inches. The twa feathers are often supposed to be the tail feathers of the cock. Fig. 99. 65. Cloak of iiwi with basal border, eight crescents and six triangles of 00. It was brought to the United States by Captain William Cunningham, of Cambridge, i^ Ilaupih'iigsnianiel i'o)i den Samhvich fnst'ln. Internationalea Archiv fiir EihnoJogie, Bd. I., 143. Taf. VIII. 39 JjH. fit., p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
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