Handbook to the ethnographical collections . e cloaks were offabulous value is based upon an exaggeration. A considerablenumber of Hawaiian feather cloaks is in existence, and the seriesin the Museum is of high quality, the specimens from WindsorCastle deposited by the King, being exceptionally wellpreserved. Several of these cloaks probably date from thevisit of Liho-Liho, or even earlier, and may have been gifts toGeorge III and George IV. Tippets and cloaks of inferior qualitywere covered with cocks featheis. POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 163 Tahiti (Society Islands) This group lies to
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . e cloaks were offabulous value is based upon an exaggeration. A considerablenumber of Hawaiian feather cloaks is in existence, and the seriesin the Museum is of high quality, the specimens from WindsorCastle deposited by the King, being exceptionally wellpreserved. Several of these cloaks probably date from thevisit of Liho-Liho, or even earlier, and may have been gifts toGeorge III and George IV. Tippets and cloaks of inferior qualitywere covered with cocks featheis. POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 163 Tahiti (Society Islands) This group lies to the east of Tonga, and was discovered byCaptain Wallis in a. d. 1767: two years later it was visited byCaptain Cook. It was the earliest scene of the labours of theLondon Missionary Society in the South Seas, the first mission-aries landing in the Duff in a. d. 1797. Though the Tahitians did not produce canoes of such highfinish as those of New Zealand and Hawaii, they built themin large numbers, and possessed regular war-fleets. The canoes.
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