Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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My eye sight is very poor, I don’t see anything on the top of the hill.
This one, over there right on the down slope.
Yes. I think that’s Kuka‘iau’s water tank.
Pu‘u Male side
Pu‘u Maile [as pronounced].
[commenting on gulch crossing road in the Kuka‘iau section] It must have been amazing
to see water flowing through here. Did you ever see water come down here
After a heavy rain I’ve seen it washed, where it washed some of the road out, but not too
much.
The gulch that we just passed through was really deep. Does that have a name
I don’t know, it must have a name but I don’t know. Here again, Miranda would know, I’m
sure.
I think Hänaipoe has a gulch from the boundary description.
Yes, right over there is a gulch. I think a little further where that tree is.
I guess that Ka‘ala land that you folks used to have was a lease Must have been a
lease land
Lease land.
It was from the Government. Is it still DHHL, Mehau has or
I think so, yes… Is that the gulch you were talking about
There was one that was back a little bit farther, this one might be Hänaipoe gulch right
here, maybe.
I think so, yes. These are all old fallen down koa.
Yes. The seedlings just had no chance.
Yes.
Rally, maybe Kepä’s already asked this, but in your life, have you ever come across
signs of ancient Hawaiian life up here, or stone tool chipping debris
No I haven’t. The only place I’ve heard of stone adze is in Kona up in the forest over
there.
Above your folks section
Yes. I can remember my father telling me that he was after a bunch of cattle one time
and he ran across these adzes. So he piled them up and figured he would go back and
get them later, and then he could never find them after leaving them there.
Honoköhau or Kaumalumalu side
Honoköhau.
So it wasn’t that high up then, was it Pu‘u Kapo‘ula, the mauka section
Mauka side.
But you also went to the adze caves up on Mauna Kea, right
Yes.
That was later timing in the ‘30s like that, not growing up
Yes, in the ‘30s…
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