. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIGS. IO AND II. CAPES FROM COOK COLLECTION. 12 BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. Fig. ii. A yellow cape with red ornamentation as shown in the figure. Theneck band was of red and yellow while the front bands were smaller and of yellow andblack. As will be seen on the figure the feathers are nearly stripped from the lowerportion of the cape. A war cApF frqm cqoK) SYUNEy This war cape in the very interesting collection of Cook relics in the AustralianMuseum in Sydney was figured in the first volume of the Bishop Museum Memoirs and. FIG. 12. CAPE,
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . FIGS. IO AND II. CAPES FROM COOK COLLECTION. 12 BRIG HAM ON HAWAIIAN FEATHER WORK. Fig. ii. A yellow cape with red ornamentation as shown in the figure. Theneck band was of red and yellow while the front bands were smaller and of yellow andblack. As will be seen on the figure the feathers are nearly stripped from the lowerportion of the cape. A war cApF frqm cqoK) SYUNEy This war cape in the very interesting collection of Cook relics in the AustralianMuseum in Sydney was figured in the first volume of the Bishop Museum Memoirs and. FIG. 12. CAPE, COOK COLLECTION, SYDNEY. is here repeated to show the variety of ahuula collected by Cook in the best period ofthat manufacture. Petrograd, Vienna, Berne, London, Sydney and Wellington haverelics of that immortal expedition, while the Hawaiian Islands cannot show the smallestcape that has returned to the place of origin. It seems a pity, but on the other handwe possess finer feather work 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
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