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Interesting information about King Kamehameha's cloak


In the episode King Kamehameha Blues, a priceless cloak is stolen from a museum. Here is what it says about the cloak in Booking Hawaii Five-0 by Karen Rhodes.

Among the Hawaiian people, the feather cloak-such as the one stolen from the Bishop Museum...-was a badge of royalty. It could take 100 years to make one, for they were painstakingly constructed one feather at a time. The feathers were rare and were carefully collected so as not to harm the birds. A hunter spread a tree limb with a sticky substance, trapping a perching bird. Then the hunter removed one feather from under each wing, for it was these feathers which were of the right color, texture, and length. After removing the feathers, the hunter would set the bird free to grown another precious pair.
Isn't that interesting! The book also talks about the birds that the feathers came from, the mamo, the iwi'i, and the o'o. The o'o is probably extinct, but during the run of Hawaii Five-0, an ornithologist thought he had spotted some in Kauai. Jack Lord flew to Kauai and bought some acres of land where the bird was supposedly spotted, so it would have a safe place, but sadly, the bird was not seen again.

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Interesting.  Maybe the bird that was spotted was an apparition?

In regards to the show ......
I have to wonder ,why did they end
up doing a 2nd ep. about the cloak getting stolen?

Were they really that in need of an idea?



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Maybe the bird that was spotted was an apparition?
Maybe it was. Or maybe it was the very last one of its kind.  They did seem to recycle ideas a lot-it can't have been easy to come up with a new idea for every episode for twelve years.

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I think that's the point, though. One of those cloaks took so long to make that no one expected to see one started and finished in their lifetime. It wasn't a garment. It was a legacy. It's really a different way of thinking from our time, where people want things immediately and throw stuff out even when it's still good. A hundred years to make, maybe kept for hundreds of years...that's pretty epic. I know I never looked at that cloak on the show the same way after reading about how it was made.

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