The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-21


all Hawaiians. whether by birth or as
ISOLATION. She married the Hon. G. K.
Bishop, and with her immense wealth
and her kindly deeds through life, ere
ated a new life among the Hawalians.
Upon her death she left most OF her
wealth to endow the Kamehameha |
Schools, a separate school for boys and |
a separate one for girls. These schools |
are kept up entirely from the income |
of her estates, which have become so |
vast as to render it necessary to erect |
other buildings throughout the ISL
ands in order to expend the revenue. In
memory of his wife, the Hon. Z. H.
Bishop dedicated the museum In her
name. laying aside a princely endow-
ment. Collectors have secured the Ha-
waiian Islands for curios of historical
and intrinsic value and have succeed
ed by the most diligent effort ana at
great expense, in depositing in the mu-
scum an invaluable collection OF an
Gent materials which would warm the
cookies of the antiquarians heart De,
vond measure. Calabashes, large and
. small. ancient and modern, have come
into the museum; some were in the
possession of families, relics passed
from one generation to another; otn-
ers were found in the caves Where IN
Iancient times were buried the kings
and chiefs. Idols of grotesque Shapes,
dedicated to all the elements Oh NATURE
good and evil; some dedicated TO fele
the Goddess of Volcanoes; others to
the poison god and to the fish god; some
made of stone, others of the valuable
koa and kou woods; one made OF the
trunk of the poison tree, its wood, up
on being stepped in water, being
ri most powerful, yet undetectable poisol
: which acts upon the heart, and wnlei
was used by the kahunas and chlets
Beautiful feather cloaks of wonder1u
sheen and delicate texture, worn b
Kamehameha the Great during his tou
vs of conquest a century ago.
Then from all parts OF Polynesl
came trophies and relics; manufacture
of kapa, or cloth made of the hDres
trees: shell ornaments, implements fC
led Drenaring the foods of the people, an
. the receptacles for containing then
war-clubs, fashioned and turned an
inlaid with shells in the most dextro'
manner. All the South Sea lslanC
were visited, and they in turn furnls
~ ed idols Of ancient days; cIotn' hshll
- implements, canoes, shellwork, bea
work and personal ornaments fas
toned from whatsoever nature plac'
at their disposal. In fact, nature n
inl supplied every material for food,
clothing and for pleasure, and, stran
as il may seem, every tree fibre, eve
root, every plant, every blossom, eve
mart of a fish, every part of an amin
"a pig-even to the entrails and stol
ach. are utilized in some way or anot
I'D er.
EF At the main entrance one is &C
. fronted by hideous wooden and sto
NC gods of the Hawaiians, carved into Ia
No, tastic designs, head and body all out
proportion to the human being whl
AZ they are supposed to represent; WI
hln' gaping mouths, marvellously turn
noses, short, thick arms, rotund sto
achs, or opus" as the natives te
them, create a nightmare OF fantasy
ON ones mind. These gods were W
shipped up to about eighty years a
. or Just previous to the time of the
rival of the first missionaries fr
New England.
ABB Royal Insignia.
~ Within a hall set apart for royal
II" sigma, ancient and modern, are to
n found the wonderful feather c!oi
which were worn only by the XII
and high chiefs, and persons OF 10
MOOD The marvellous construct