The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-25

credit to the boys'-referrins to the
corps of his skilled assistants-and SAID
that without their hard work the show
ing of exhibits made would have been
impossible. The faculty of the Museum,
is as follows:
William T. Brigham, Director.
William II. Dali, Honorary Curator
of Mollusca
William a. Bryan, Curator of Birds.
John F. G. Stokes, Curator of Pacific
Ethnology.
L. G. Blackman, Assistant and Act
ing Librarian
DR.. c. Montague Cooke. Jr.. Assist
ant.
John W. Thompson, Artist and
Modeller.
Alvin Scale, Collector.
John j. Greene, Printer.
SOME EXHIBITS.
Among the exhibits in Hawaiian
Hall none attracted more attention
yesterday than the figures of ancient
Hawaiian life made from living models
by Allen Hutchinson, the English
sculptor. among his latest works in Ho-
nolulu. The kahuna praying one to
death, the poi-pounders, the tapa cloth
makers, ETC., are all startlingIy realis-
tic. There is a grass hut in the middle
of the main floor, with part of the
matching removed to show the con-
struction. The models of Hawaiian
fishes, with their wondrous coloring,
are alone worth going far to see. Sus-
pended high under the ceiling, clear of
the galleries, is the model of a Sperm
| whale $751; feet long, having one side
open to show the skeleton structure
which is real. Opposite, within the up
per gallery, a great shark swims in
| the air. The collections of land and
sea birds, stuffed, and Hawaiian fruits,
| modelled, are instructive as well as
beautiful to contemplate. Within glass
cabinets, upon the main floor near the
| entrance, are the regalia of royalty
| the crown, Scepter and sword of state
| of Kalakaua-and the thrones of state
of the departed monarchy, also the uni
forms of the last-named and last-to-
reign king of Hawaii, including gen.
erals and an admiraPs martial trap
pings.
HALF NOT TOLD.
| 1t is to be remembered that the
/ Hawaiian Hall just opened, though
| perhaps better than half of the whole
| Museum in size, does not contain a
| noiety of the treasures of the institu-
/ ton. Professor Brigham has prepared
handbook for visitors to the Museum
| which, though only claiming to give a
general description of the objects dis
played, contains more than a hundred
double-column pages. This work is OF
intense interest from the mere readine
of it, besides being well illustrated, but
is indispensable to the visitor who
| would grasp the significance of the in
stitution--one that confers greatness or
Honolulu as much as anything here
established. Referring to illustrations
j of the first building and the extension
at the present date, the author says:
"The material is gray basalt quarriet
in the neighborhood, and the interior
woodwork is chiefly of koa, an Hawai-
ian wood remarkable alike for it's util.
ity and hardness and the variety and
richness of it's color. Special orecau
ton has been directed to rendering the
/ Museum fireproof, and heavy sliding
doors of copper packed with asbestos
separate the principal departments
while the school buildings in the neigh.
/ borhood have been moved to suitable
distance"
THE MUSEUM OPEN.
On and after Friday next the Mu
scum will be open Fridays and Satur
| days, from 10 to o'clock winter an6
10 to summer. An official notice else.
where gives further information for the