feathered garment

Special care was taken to choose the proper colors for Kamehameha's skin tone and red and yellow feathered garments.

Any garments they are wearing, particularly the feathered garments, become part of the plumage when they do so.

In normal form, they resemble slender, tawny, attractive human females, generally clad in light robes and some form of white, feathered garment.

His harem of illusory dancing girls, complete with fans, grapes and feathered garments, would also have to remain in hiding, stashed away in the netherlands of his magical universe.

Swanmays are all originally human females who were given their form of lycanthropy by voluntarily accepting a token, such as a feathered garment or signet ring, from a current swanmay.

One, a splendid red-and-yellow study of crescents and triangles that King Kamehameha III presented to a British general in 1831, brought $240,800, still the auction record for a Hawaiian feathered garment.

For use as reference for Gould, King Kalākaua commissioned a series of photographs of Hawaiians modeling King Kamehameha's original feathered garments, which had been passed down over the generations.

LEAD: UNCOMMON THOUGH they may be, Pre-Columbian textiles and feathered garments - boldly graphic, vividly colored and robustly textured - continue to appear in New York art galleries.