HIGHLAND COSTUMERS FOR A MAORI CHIEF. (From the Edinburgh Courant.)

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1876, Page 2

HIGHLAND COSTUMERS FOR A MAORI CHIEF. (From the Edinburgh Courant .)

Messrs. Uohn Mortimer and Co of the Royal Clan Tartan Warehouse, George, street have just completed an order by Mr. John Nairn of New Zealand, for two sets of Highland costume for a Maori chief -one being a^ full, and the other L un dress. The chief is 'about five feet ?e,i inches m height, strongly bu^t, weighs twenty-two stone, and* measures X! four inches round the chest. One of the dresses is a full eveilksg Cost ° consisting of a green cloth jacket _J S a &S,-fc-_S^_S_? Gsaart_B«-_;s__: cairngorms The crest or device on the sporran and dirk is that of a semi savage with war-club over the shoulder, groups?! thistles being beautifully chased fn Ser % ornamenting the sporran are fixed ifeto chased silver befls suspended by silver chains. Thehoseis of the ISTart check, and chase silver buckles adorn the brogues. A Glengarry bonnet, with crest and three eagle's feathers, forms part of the dress, which is complete with the claymore. The costume is exceedingly finktT ci Tt nd haS been beau?iful# finished. The ornaments are exemisita specimens of the jeweller's art the cCng enSi 6 T^ cy i rich cuted. The undress is o f the Dudhope check, accompanied with otter-head sporran and buckhorn-handled dirk and i skeandhu mounted with silver, which is engraved with the device of the semiI ™ Va f?' Ud r aced with a folia ge design. • and the bonn6t Lowland. I .'" ¦¦