Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes.
I guess these were bread ovens like the what the Portuguese
Yes.
Make ferno
Yes.
I think there’s three of ‘em all together that are still up.
Yes.
You folks used to go holoholo
Yes.
Good. [sound of sheep] [chuckles] You hear the hipa
Yes.
They’re all [hipa] running up to the gate [chuckling].
It was dusty here before.
Was dusty here, so wasn’t like this
No, very dusty.
I guess because they always turning the soil, got to plant new crop.
Yes.
And corn, you know I guess you harvest the corn pau, knock ‘em down.
Yes. [bird calls out] That’s guinea hen.
Hmm. I guess they bought in the guinea hen, turkeys like that.
Yes.
I guess you had one place where they were raising chickens out here too, yeah.
Yes.
It seems like Waiki‘i may have sort of been like the bread basket.
Yes.
You know, where they grew crops and all these things. The walnuts and the plums or
apples, apricots, you said. They must have taken it down to town
Yes. But then the worms, the bugs came in.
‘Auwë!
Butterfly you know.
When you were a child or later
Later. Had lot of pigs here, they raised pigs up here.
Oh yeah
Turkeys, a lot of turkeys.
The corn mostly was for
Ranch use.
And the animals, for ranch use like that
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:287