RELICS OF CAPTAIN COOK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12748, 27 April 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

RELICS OF CAPTAIN COOK.

.A VALUABLE COLLECTION. :■ .. .'jj*- :<-iw_-i i.j.n' T- a^fY*^ . ; -.' Some valuable and interesting relics of Captain Qook have arrived, m Wellington by the Corinthic, and are to be placed m -the Dominion Museum, where part of tliei.po^lec.tion will.,b^ as soon, .as can' be arranged.' Tnpliided ariiong these "relics'"; are the feather cloak' and helmet ' ' d^sewbed- itt Captain Cook's' journal- . as • haying been presented to him by th^. Chief .. !perreo-. boo (Tiarreboo ? or Tairapu) shortly be-' fore his death. ' The chief lum_elf ; thi*'eAV the cloak OA-er Cook,' and : placed hiS- helmet on his .-head,;^' the , natives at . that time regarding Cook almost as a god.. There is also : in ' the co^lectibri a cloak made principally ibf the ' "black feathers of the powhee bikd, boVdered- with red arid yellow; a -fly flicker belonging to Captain Cooky, the. handle being .made of the arm bone of a chief taken/in battle'; a military gorget worn 'by tlife AVarriors Of Otakeite,' two nose flutes front the Sandwich Islands, a vwy *fine,:-..cuttirig knife, edged .Avith* shark's teeth;. ...avo, lqols and jackstorie froni NeAv. Zealand; shears, Avar cliibs. paddles, and'arrOAvs; Avaist clo-fch of wother -of pearl ;. aii African horn; two African fans, ' and 'a pouch; flint and bone instruments, and so on. ..,""".'"" . .; ;Tlie collection has b_en present-d to the Goverhment and people <of New Zealand by .Lord St. OsArald, m- Avhose tamily they haye i been since 1819.,