File:Handbook to the ethnographical collections (1910) (14760361466).jpg

Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
Subjects:
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Fig. J42.—Ceremonial dress wornat burial ritea by the chief mourner.Tahiti. 162 OCEANIA cases the feathers were obtained from two kinds of birds, the iiwi(vesfiaria coccinea) and the oo (acrulocercus nohilis), the formersupplying the red, the latter the yellow feathers. Of the twocolours, the yellow was considered superior, and no one but theking was permitted to wear a cloak entirely of yellow. But inthe case of the king, the yellow feathers were procured fromanother bird, the JIamo (drcpanis pacijka) now extinct, and wereof a richer colour, with something of an orange tint. There isonly one royal yellow cloak now known to exist, and that is inthe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu, and the small tippet * in the centre of the case is made of these feathers, and
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 143.—Food-bowl of wood inlaid with shell and boue.Hawaiian Islands. probably belonged to one of the Hawaiian kings. Mamo featherswere rarely used in the variegated cloaks and tippets. The yellowfeathers in these are nearly always derived from the yellow tuftsgrowing near the wings of the oo. The idea that each l>ird onlysupplied a single feather, and that therefore these 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 H.M. 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

Note About Images