Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes. They had a lot of water. That is the most fascinating place out there where those
fields are, and now it’s all going to be house sites, I think…
…Don’t ask me where we are, with all this gorse around the place sure looks different.
It looks so different, yes I wouldn’t recognize it. We used to have certain hills we’d
recognize, and they had certain rock formations on them on the makai side, I don’t see
those any more. I don’t even see all of Willie’s reservoirs that he put in, Ricky pointed out
three of them to me. And there was a good big one on the mauka side of the road that
held water.
This has always been a good road here, this is no pilikia.
[commenting on the rising cloud and vog cover] I don’t think we’re going to be able to see
the wall.
What wall are you talking about
The old wall on the mauka side of here, that’s just past Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö a ways.
I don’t know anything about that.
Yes, it’s a nice old wall, you’ll see it in the write up I left for you.
I was telling him about some stories that you got together. Sarah said, “Oh, he’s got
stories” I said, Sarah, “He is so full of knowledge, it’s like an encyclopedia.” He finally
told Sarah the meaning of her grandmother’s maiden name, “the gathering of ‘öhi‘a
flowers.” Ki‘ilehua, pretty.
Yes…
…This is Pu‘u Loa up here.
Isn’t this the big water hole that holds water…
I think that’s the wall, see that long wall line there
Yes.
That’s what’s described as being Külaka and it’s 1850s, built by, I don’t know if it was
Spencer…
Oh, way over there going mauka.
Going up to Pu‘u Loa
Yes.
And you see the line
Yes.
This is an old wall on the landscape. You don’t remember anything about it Rally
No, I don’t.
Was it a broken down wall, Rally Or didn’t you go up there
I didn’t go up there.
Do you think it was used to funnel cattle, down the wall that they chased them up to it
and then worked them down to the spot where they would trap them
That’s how you would think, because it’s not a pen obviously.
A division of paddocks.
There should be some processing area somewhere associated with it, probably on the
makai.
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