County: Honolulu
Site_Name: Puu o Hekili.
Island: Oahu
Traditional_District: Waialua
District: Waialua
Ahupuaa: Kawaihapai
Site_Function: G-Shrine
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 6-8-02:
State_Site_Number: 50-80-03-190
BM_site_number: 50-Oa-D02-001
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Surveyor: McAllister
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1930
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SiteType: Puu o Hekili, an ahua which was once located on the beach below the Kawaihapai station. According to Hookala, an ahua is "bent instead of angular in construction" amd was evidently a type of fishing shrine (ko'a).
Bibliography: Sterling/Summers, 1962, BPBM Press, Sites of Oahu, p. 99 J.G. McAllister, Arch. of Oahu, 1933, Site 190, p. 128.
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