Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

TB: Pu‘u, Pu‘ukalani.
RH: Pu‘u, that’s how I always remembered it.
KM: They cut short.
RH: I think it’s just in the way they say it, it’s shorter.
TB: Western people move in and they cut it all short.
RH: Yes.
KM: Well, just like now, most people just say “Puwawa.”
RH: Yes. Eventually it gets, “Oh that’s what I heard.”
KM: And wa‘awa‘a is literally furrows, the gullies in it.
RH: Yes.
KM: Did you folks have any station out here, in what’s now PTA [Pöhakuloa Training Area]
TB: No.
KM: Any area
TB: No.
KM: You folks, the old road went pretty much through here
TB: Yes, through here.
KM: You folks would just go back and forth between…because this was Territory land yeah
TB: That’s right.
KM: On the old map that I’m talking about from 1869, it’s Register Map 528, and I brought a
copy for you. It was done for the trail alignment. The man who surveyed it was Wiltse.
TB: Hmm.
Discusses Wai-hü-o-Käne springs:
KM: This Wiltse put, when he got to Pöhakuloa he marked it Pöhakuloa, and then he said,
“Waterhole.” Do you remember any water out here in your time
TB: Has the spring.
KM: The spring mauka, yeah
TB: Yes.
KM: Way high, right, just kind of above the forest line or low
TB: Right above.
KM: Yes. So you can see the little clump of trees.
TB: Yes.
KM: I guess the pipe goes up to there now.
RH: Is there a special name for that Teddy or, does the spring have a name
TB: It had a name Robby, but I can’t recall.
KM: Can I say a name, uncle, and see if you remember
TB: Yes.
KM: Kawaihü or Wai-hü-o-Käne
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