83 ah Stone (fi g. 4). Its whereabouts are unknown today, but it was still in the collection when Henry Syer Cuming presented it at a meeting of the British Archaeological Association, probably sometime in the 1880s. Richard’s copy of the Leverian sale catalog survives in the Cuming Collection today, neatly annotated in his own hand with the names of buyers. He seems to have had a particular fascination with the Leverian Collection, and his close association with other collectors at the time enabled him to acquire several other Leverian artifacts at a later date. These were identifi ed by Adrienne Kaeppler and published in her excellent work Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum. Richard’s son, Henry Syer Cuming, shared his father’s passion and continued to enlarge the collection, maintaining its broad scope and variety. It contained excavated objects unearthed during construction work in London or dredged from the Thames; ancient Egyptian artifacts from the collections of Sir Henry Salt, British Consul-General in Egypt, and Giovanni d’Athanasi, the famous dealer working in Egypt; watches and mechanical instruments; and even dried beef used as food supplies for ships. Henry was a member of the British FIG. 4 (above): Sarah Stone (1760–1844), two Hawaiian mahiole in the Leverian Museum, c. 1783. The bottom example was acquired by the Cumings. Its present location is unknown. Watercolor on paper. From Sarah Stone’s sketchbook, volume 3, now in the Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu. From R. W. and M. Force, Art and Artifacts of the 18th Century, Honolulu, 1968, p. 33. FIG. 3 (below): Feather cape. Hawaii. Before 1778. I’iwi and ‘o’o feathers, olona fi ber. W: 101 cm. Cuming Museum, C2398. This cape was collected during Cook’s third voyage and formed part of the collection of the Leverian Museum, where it was sketched by Sarah Stone. It may have been part of lot 2815 in the 1806 Leverian Museum sale, purchased by Peter Dick, and it was later sold in the sale of Dick’s Museum in 1821, where it was bought by Thomas Everill. Everill’s collection was sold 1841, at which time it was probably acquired by the Cumings. FIG. 5 (above): Aumakua ki’i fi gure. Hawaii. Before 1850. Wood, pigment. H: 30.7 cm. Inscribed on back “Sandwich Is. Got from Mr. Boulter.” St. Louis Art Museum, 1532:1983. The fi gure was purchased by Richard Cuming on 6 July 1850 from a Mr. Boulter, probably Daniel Boulter, the curiosity dealer and museum owner of Great Yarmouth, who had many Cook artifacts. It was deacquisitioned from the Cuming Museum after WWII and was acquired by Ken Webster, who sold it to James Hooper in 1948. Upon Hooper’s death in 1977, it was sold through Christie’s to Morton May, who in turn bequeathed it to the St. Louis Art Museum.
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