Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes.
Plenty times I used to rest on the road through there. I never saw anything, nothing
bothered me.
I think they knew you.
[chuckling]
[thinking] You know, you never found old Hawaiian stone tools out in the field or anything
like that
No, no stone tools. Lava bombs, they get.
Yes, yes.
Barbara picking up some, but nothing how you say that’s manmade you know.
Artifacts like. I notice you have a very interesting poi pounder I think here. A poi pounder
Yes. That was my, I have an aunty who was teaching school for over thirty years in
Kaua‘i. She collects things, she stayed in a retirement home in Punahou Street, Arcadia
or something.
Yes.
I got married to Barbara, we visited. That’s a gift, “here, gift.”
Beautiful! And it was interesting that you said, I was curious because you see that style is
unique to Kaua‘i.
Yes.
No more that kind over here, so I was curious, so it was from her teaching on Kaua‘i.
Yes. Another cousin of mine he passed away. He used to work for Parker Ranch over
here. He said, “I think this is from Kaua‘i, for wahines to pound poi.” That’s how we had
that.
Yes. Very interesting, beautiful! Wonderful, good history! Thank you so much! You know
this palapala this one here, I think you’ll enjoy this.
Yes, yes, sure…
And this is a J.S. Emerson sketch from 1882 in this study, from Nä Pu‘ukülua looking up,
that’s Ahumoa there.
Yes.
And all the different pu‘u like that and you remember let’s see I want to just see…Here’s
Pu‘u Kea okay, here’s Pu‘u Koko, Pu‘u Mau‘u is off on the side and the old trail cuts
across.
That’s right.
Interesting though you know. This is the top edge of Nä Pu‘ukülua here. You’ll enjoy this.
You remember I was telling you that there’s a tradition about how Waiki‘i was named.
And the names of Waihüokäne or Waihü like that. That story is in here too. I translated it
from the Hawaiian newspapers, very interesting I think you’ll enjoy this. I know your wife
will enjoy that too.
She’s going to read all night.
Okay [chuckles].
You know you talking about Waiki‘i they have, talking about that. When they sold that
place for subdivision, they sunk a well in there.
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