Hawaiian Feather Staff, Kahili, 19th century, a long plain baleen handle, with bone or whale tooth finial, bound with brown feathers, (moth damage), lg. 33 in.

Provenance: Leo and Lillian Fortess collection, Honolulu, Hawaii; Christie's, London, June 21, 1977, lot 163; The James Hooper Collection, Arundel, Sussex, UK, number 327; Acquired from the Maidstone Museum, Kent, 1950; J. L. Brenchley, resident in the Hawaiian Islands, 1850-54.

Literature: Steven Hooper, Art and Artifacts of the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas: The James Hooper Collection, 1976, number 327, page 417.

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