Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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The wireless…those houses would be right around in here.
Yes.
Okay, here’s the main pu‘u in Waiki‘i.
Hill Fence we call that.
Okay, yes, has all the different names all around here like this. You came up now in
1932, then
In ‘32, yes.
Okay. Let’s see, He‘ewai, Small He‘ewai, Tree Line, Mac Hill. Now, you were saying the
corn like up here, this is Pä Kila Paddock up here
Pä Kila yeah.
Okay, so now you know where we are.
Uh-hmm.
Turkey Pen.
Turkey Pen, that’s where I worked there.
Okay, so you worked at Turkey Pen
Yes, uh-hmm.
Okay. What was your job then when you went up to Waiki‘i
Start an egg laying chicken farm and taking care of turkeys, too.
Yes.
I can tell you a story about the turkey farm.
Okay.
Most of the turkeys, because they grow corn in all different areas.
Yes.
Well, also they grow oats in the spring, but not for the grain. When the oats grow up,
starting the grain, then they cut ‘em to make hay, oat hay for their race horses.
It’s the best hay.
They were raising horses.
So, that good feed went to the horses
Yes, the feed here and the corn field. Around there would be a lot of turkeys.
Oh!
But they’re wild, they don’t get…about end of August they’ll have too many. They go at
night, a guy goes down…one of the guys, two, he rides around. He stop from one section
and go whatever he goes to the day, he look for where the turkeys roost.
Yes, yes.
At night he’ll have his helper and they take a couple of kind of long bamboo, and we call
‘em ‘aho in those days.
‘Aho yes, the rope on top
Yes. Had a loop on it.
A loop, yeah.
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