Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KL: Yes, supposed to get a meaning.
KM: Some have stories still yet
KL: Plenty stories, plenty stories. Those days you young, the mind holo pupule [chuckling]!
KM: [chuckles] In one ear out the other
KL: Yes, yes, that’s true. And when you grow up, become one man, you think, but too late
[shaking his head].
KM: Do you by chance remember hearing what Waiki‘i means, or something
KL: No, those old families never say nothing.
KM: You know Tütü Kihe who used to go Pu‘u Anahulu
KL: Yes, right.
Discusses various pu‘u and features of the ‘äina mauna:
KM: He wrote a real neat story about Waiki‘i, Holoholokü, to Pöhakuloa like that from the old
mo‘olelo.
KL: Hmm.
KM: Was there a place where there was water up here that you remember hearing about
KL: I think I heard about that from those old folks, but I never see that.
KM: Yes. You know it’s very interesting, the Waiki‘i Gulch they called.
KL: Yes.
KM: Sort of comes through something like… [pointing to location on map] This is Ahumoa
[looking at map] , so the Waiki‘i Gulch comes through somewhere down here, just within
the edge of the Waiköloa point.
KL: Yes, right, that’s the one.
KM: Next gulch down, they call ‘Auwaiakeakua.
KL: Yes.
KM: And you see that puka out down at the makai road now, get the new bridge
KL: Yes.
KM: And then another one Po‘opo‘o or Pöpo‘o
KL: Right. Get one more, yeah.
KM: On an old, old map in 1859 for this ‘äina, what they call Waiköloa. Big ‘äina, yeah
KL: Big ‘äina, that Waiköloa.
KM: Down in this area they said used to have one old po‘e kahiko time, planting area like that
and stuff.
KL: They had you know, I remember.
KM: You remember hearing something
KL: We used to go, move pipi here and there, all the way down. Yes, they had right. But hard
to remember [shaking his head].
KM: Sometimes, would you folks see things that the old people left…you know, kahua or pä
or something like that
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:178