Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KM: In the old map I gave you from 1859 [Register Map 574], you’ll see that from Waiki‘i, just
a little below Pu‘u Ku‘ikahekili in this area here where you folks were growing corn.
There’s a place called Hälauakeakua. It was an old planting field area. In the Hawaiian
days and you know you get ‘Auwaiakeakua Stream yeah
JY: Yes, yes.
KM: The gulch, Waiki‘i Gulch more up. Evidently people, sometimes lived in places up here
like that.
JY: Probably, we don’t know.
Discusses trails to the summit region of Mauna Kea:
KM: Yes. Even like Ahumoa, I was told, but I don’t know. There’s a trail that runs up to Mauna
Kea sort of up through here. Maybe in between Ahumoa-Pu‘u Lä‘au and goes up to the
summit. Did you ever go up that mountain side
JY: Yes, I went up Mauna Kea.
KM: You went up Mauna Kea, from where, this side
JY: Yes, both sides.
KM: Both sides, so Pu‘u Lä‘au
JY: Pu‘u Lä‘au.
KM: You go up, get trail or…
JY: Get trail, and right now, get car road too.
KM: Which road
JY: Car, jeep can go up. Go all the way to Pu‘u Mali.
KM: Wow!
JY: Then you go, we call it Pine Tree.
KM: Yes.
JY: You go up the Pine Tree go way up.
KM: Wow! Evidently the old people used to travel around like that too.
JY: When I came, the CCC you know, they had the young boys up there working. They
probably made that road.
KM: The old fence line like that
JY: Yes.
KM: They had Forest Reserve yeah, or they had to protect the…
JY: This Ahumoa, they said that’s where the Germans used to raise chickens up there
before.
KM: For real
JY: That’s how the name, Ahumoa.
KM: [chuckling]
JY: Moa is chicken.
KM: That’s right, moa is chicken.
JY: That’s what old man Palaika tell me.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:268