. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. ON HAlVAilAN FHATlfER WORK. the kahilis made cspeciall)" for tlic fiitieral were of pure wliite as in keeping witli her elmniAer. No such clisliiiftioii held iii the okleii time. I do not forg-ct that in the case of cloaks, and to a less degree with kaliilis, ^velknv was a royal color as with so iiiaiiv 'oriental nations; possibly, as has been snggested, from gokl th,e king of metals, 1)nt most likeh' from the sun, the ruler of earthly life. The yellow robes of
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. ON HAlVAilAN FHATlfER WORK. the kahilis made cspeciall)" for tlic fiitieral were of pure wliite as in keeping witli her elmniAer. No such clisliiiftioii held iii the okleii time. I do not forg-ct that in the case of cloaks, and to a less degree with kaliilis, ^velknv was a royal color as with so iiiaiiv 'oriental nations; possibly, as has been snggested, from gokl th,e king of metals, 1)nt most likeh' from the sun, the ruler of earthly life. The yellow robes of China, the yel- low nnd^relkis of the Kast Indies, the golden disks of Pern,—and we might go back to tlie life-giving orb of the Egyp- tian Ra,—all proclaim the regal essence of yellow. Formerly the base of the Imlnniaun or e\djnder of feathers was closed or ter- minated at the base by an in,verted cone of feathers kept in place by bands of kapa. This simple form gave way to rather tawdry sleeves of silk lionnd witli long ribl)on streamers of the gandy colors dear to the colored races. The very grand effect of the kahilis carried in a fnneral procession will not easily l)e forgotten by those wdio have been present at such fnnAions. kb-om every side the_v present the same aspect, and the graceful forms add dignity to the stream of humanity almost as palnrs do to a tropical sunset. Nor alone iii pro- cession,—grouped alKjul a throne or a bier they both decorate and add dignity to the place. The funeral of Kaiiikeaouli (Kaniehameha IILj, in January, 1855, was sketched by a Swiss artist, Paul Bnimcrt, and from his drawing the illns- traticm. Fig. 14, p. 20, is given. The pall upon the cofiin was the rcn-al robe of his sister Nahicnaena, and man^\' of the kaliilis iL'^ed (Ui that occasion are now in the Bishop Mirsenm. The officer in charge of the kahili was called Pud kali ilL Ikdoro leaving the subject of kaliilis we may recall the description given bv Rev. C. S. Richards,
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