. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . than any Cook was able to carry away, and ours is in farbetter preservation than most of the others. Except for the neck band and front border the cape looks like a kiwi feather capefrom New Zealand, and has great resemblance to the fine kiwi cloak in the Bishop Museum,No. 8579. Other similar war capes recorded in the list of Hawaiian ahuula appended COOK RELICS IN WELLINGTON, N Z. ?3 to this Supplement, are No. 26 which is very like, 33, 34, 35, all in British Museum,64 in Leiden, and 94 in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., this being No. 73
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . than any Cook was able to carry away, and ours is in farbetter preservation than most of the others. Except for the neck band and front border the cape looks like a kiwi feather capefrom New Zealand, and has great resemblance to the fine kiwi cloak in the Bishop Museum,No. 8579. Other similar war capes recorded in the list of Hawaiian ahuula appended COOK RELICS IN WELLINGTON, N Z. ?3 to this Supplement, are No. 26 which is very like, 33, 34, 35, all in British Museum,64 in Leiden, and 94 in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., this being No. seems that the long greenish-black feathers of the Frigate Bird (Fregata aquild) usedin these capes and not well cared for are apt to become stringy and hardly recognizable. Till-. FEATHER 1896 I found in Vienna a curious hat, evidently of foreign design which seemedauthentically traced to Cooks last voyage: the feathers were few and the relic hadeventually reached a safe port from very stormy seas. It was the only one of its kind. FIG. 13. FEATHER HAT. so far found in a rather careful search for Hawaiian feather work in the museums ofthe world, and it was so evidently an attempted imitation of a haolc hat in genuineHawaiian feather work that I attached little importance to it, and indeed it was hardlysufficiently preserved to form a definite opinion of its origin and object. When anotherof these hats was found in the collection of Cook relics now in the Dominion Museumin Wellington, N. Z.,1 all doubt as to its manufacture was removed and the good con-dition of the second specimen permitted a full examination, and by the kindness of Mr. These articles were originally in the Bullock Museum, London, and the Dominion Museum has a most interest-ing priced sale catalogue of the contents of this museum sold on the block. Most of the Cook relics were gatheredinto the present collection through private hands. The capes, etc., will be figured later in this essay. M BRfGHAM ON
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