215 - ‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape). Hawaiian (different one)

• Content
  • Protected the wearer from harm
  • Cloak created by artistes who chanted the wearer’s ancestors to place their power on it.
• Form
  • Coat made of thousands of bird feathers
  • 500,000 feathers; some from birds that only produce 7 usable feathers
  • red is considered a royal color in Polynesia
  • Coconut fiber used as a base; feathers tied to it