Subject: ali'i chief

Culture: Hawaiian

Setting: unification of Hawaii, 1795-1810

Object: costume > mahiole helmet

* Hawaiian Marketplace

"Mahiole & 'Ahu'ulu - Helmets & Cloaks functioned primarily as battle garb."

* Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América

"Casco de fibre

vegetal y plumas,

Islas Sandwich"

* Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América

* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall

"Helmet, mahiole

fiber (ie ie, freycinetia) Hawaiian Islands

The cap portion of this helmet was constructed using a single-pair twining technique; the base was fashioned by rows of two-pair interlocking wefts. The upper ends of the prop warps were incorporated into the crest. Though absent here, caps of similar style were decorated with feathers." ...

* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall

Wicker Helmet Covered with Projections

Hawaii" ...

* Mach's Creative Crochet

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