Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

RG: Pu‘u Laka, the hill where they were probably fenced in as you say, maybe they put them
in there to get them tame.
KM: Yes.
RG: That hill, they had a name, Pu‘u something
KM: You get Pu‘u Male or Maile like you said, you have Po‘opua‘a, Kihe.
RG: What is that one
KM: Pu‘u Kihe
PM: Kalepa
RG: Kalepa, yes
KM: Kalepa, thank you.
RG: That’s right.
KM: So the tank though, you think that’s Kalepa
PM: I think so. Since we were so far away, I didn’t think we were in sight of it. But it must be.
RG: I think that was Pu‘u Maile, the one that we were looking at way back.
KM: Yes. ‘Cause this is it now with the tank on top.
RG: What did you say it was a little while ago, Pu‘u Kalepa
KM: Kalepa.
RG: Kalepa and Pu‘u Maile was the other one.
KM: Yes. I brought that 1930s map that has a lot of good place names on it. We’ll look by and
by. Peter if you want to look, it’s in the back section of my bag, there’s one big Humu‘ula
map, then there’s this littler one here…
Group: [Discussing map and locations. End of disk 1; begin disk 2.]
KM: …The clouds are moving up.
RG: Yes.
RG: …They had a terrific fire as I understand it, it was before I came to Parker Ranch. I
understand it burned for weeks before they could finally get it out. I think it was further
back closer to Hänaipoe.
KM: You came here in ‘32
RG: In ’34. I don’t think it was too much before I came here, because I can remember talking
about it, having to come up and camp up here.
KM: Yes… You know at Kahuä, I saw in the mauka section of the ranch, a lot of log fencing,
mämane or koai‘e, just laid down for making corrals and stuff. Did you folks use, did they
do any of that out here at all
RG: No, not that I know of, no. Koai‘a, I think was only Kohala mountain, I don’t think you’d
find koai‘a any where.
KM: I was wondering about mämane, you know the pä lä‘au, basically, when they laid the
logs together for fencing
RG: Yes. I don’t know where you will find pä lä‘au now.
KM: Actually there is still a couple in the Kahuä section towards the Keawewai side.
RG: Oh yes, over by Anna Lindsey’s side. And in Kona, I think they used to cut logs and put
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