Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Do you recall about when he bought that Do you remember hearing
No, I don’t.
Does around 1904, I think it was before they got Humu‘ula.
I think it was just after they got Humu‘ula. They wanted the water for their cattle on
Humu‘ula land.
Okay. That house, was that the koa house or was it a tongue and groove
I think it was tongue and groove. I don’t think it ever, I never heard of it as being koa.
Okay. The house that burned down
In the eucalyptus grove up there, yes.
Yes.
I was wondering about that. It’s right above Waipunalei Cabins, there’s a eucalyptus
grove sort of stuck between CCC camp and Waipunalei Cabins. It’s more than one
house, there’s several foundations in there, I understood from what you heard from
Johnny, it had burned down in the 1970s.
When we went there, yes.
When I was out there with Sonny Keäkealani and Dr. Billy Bergin they said, “No,” they
knew about Waipunalei, but had never stayed in those cabins there. So I was wondering
if anybody knew a name for that camp, or who was working there
I certainly don’t know…
[arrives, and stops at Hänaipoe Cabin]
Okay, this is Hänaipoe House. This is the house where we used to bring the cattle up
here and put them in the holding pen and spend the night here and the cowboys would
spend the night. The next morning take the cattle from here out along the road through
Kuka‘iau to Keanakolu.
So this was the halfway point.
Yes, that’s right, this was the halfway.
Before they started ranching up here would this have been mämane forest
Above here it was mämane forest, yes. There was thick mämane forest, mauka.
So what would have been in that little grove of trees back there
Those old trees out there were koa.
[photos]
This is how we used to move the cattle from the other side of the mountain. We had all
the good heifers, the heifers we were keeping for breeding, and also the one’s for
market. The one’s that were not good for breeding, they were all kept on the other side of
the mountain. When we wanted them down here to breed or to market, they would take
them to Keanakolu from over there to Keanakolu. Then we’d bring those heifers down
here, put them in this little pen here and the next day, take them down by Makahälau,
and then around Makahälau, keep them for a little while, and then we’d pick them for
breeding purposes or for marketing cattle. And the calves, when we’d wean the calves
down there out by Makahälau out, from those big paddocks there, they would all take
them down to what we’d call Pä‘auhau, the area directly below here. That’s where we
pulled them out and when they were big enough to either breed or fatten, we would take
them here to Humu‘ula and that’s where they would grow out, before they came back
here to be bred or slaughtered.
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