Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1918 — Royal Regalia Now In Museum. [ARTICLE]

Royal Regalia Now In Museum.

Hawaii’s famous royal standards and robes of feathers made probably their last api>earance in a public ceremony at the recent burial of ex-Queen Liliuokalanl In Honolulu. The feather relics, regarded'by the natives as sacred, are kept in the Bishop museum, founded in memory of Mrs. Charles R. Bishop, who was the Princesit Bernice Pauahi, last in direct line of the det scendants of Kamehameha, a king whose name his people pronounced with accent on the second "meh.” The most valuable of the feather pieces la, of course, the royal robe of Kamehar ' meha the Great, for which the gathering of the feathers alone is said to have taken 100 years and to have cost $1,000,600.. This mantle was last worn by Kamehameha H and later, on state occasions, was placed over the throng