Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Well, you said driving the car up here Rally, your tires would sink way down into the soft
dust and you could get stuck.
Yes.
Powder dirt. The old Saddle Road, the old road from where we came from there.
The gulch, kahawai area
A little bit this side, it was kind of makai here.
It went makai. You saw the alignment a little further back
Yes. And it went below the Girl Scout Camp and then around. Because to get rid of this
grade when they had to haul wool with horses, I guess they couldn’t come up that hill, the
old road was makai of the Girl Scout Camp.
And did it go out, is that right, what they call Pahua Koko Is that down below there
Pahua Koko is… [gestures beyond]
Further out
Further out there.
Okay. But it was a more gentle grade to go out on to the flats of it and come up it
Just below the trees here. Pahua Koko is that flat, just mauka of Pu‘u Ke‘eke‘e hill.
Okay.
At least that’s what I was told.
Yes. You see, and there’s a pu‘u and it’s just on the mauka side of Pu‘u Ke‘eke‘e side
that is called Pu‘u Koko also. Have you heard a story about Pahua Koko About the
name or anything
No.
Okay. [driving] So, it was all mämane, naio scattered around here
Up here, yeah. Now it’s state land we just came into.
Evidently, on the old Mauna Kea maps, I have 1880s, ‘90s, that section between those
cones there that goes up, the summit was called Nanahu. I don’t know if you’ve ever
heard
Yes, Nanahu.
Okay. Have you heard
Yes, I’ve heard. I’m not sure exactly where it is Kepä, but it’s some where up between
Waiki‘i and Kemole Hill. Up in there on the boundary fence, Nanahu.
Nanahu
That’s the way I heard it.
You’re right, I messed up on the pronunciation earlier. And nanahu, you know what
nanahu means
No.
Nanahu is to bite.
Okay, yes, now that you said that. [at the bottom of the hill driving onto the flat lands] This
is the place we used to run horses.
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:101