HOME | Search by Place | Project

County: Honolulu
Site_Name: Ahuimanu or Ahulimanu.
Island: Oahu
Traditional_District: Koolaupoko
District: Koolaupoko
Ahupuaa: Kahaluu
Site_Function: R-Other site type
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 4-7-
State_Site_Number: 50-80-10-2419
BM_site_number: 50-Oa-G04-008
Project_Number:
Entered_By:
Entry_Date:
Updated_By:
Updated_Date:
National_State_Park_Site_Number:
Misc_Site_Number:
Map_ID_Number:
Photo_ID_Number:
Slide_ID_Number:
Surveyor: Place name.
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1962
Excavation:
Form_of_Ownership:
Owner: ?
Owner_Address: ?
Field_Notes:
Bag_Notes:
Dating:
History:
Status:
SiteType: Ahuimanu or Ahulimanu, traditional place name, meaning "bunches of birds", referring to a bundle of killed birds tied to the waist so that hands might be free for climbing. Also an old Catholic school site, from 1846 to 1882.
Bibliography: Sterling/Summers, 1962, Sites of Oahu, Site 7, pp. 194, 195 M.K. Pukui, 8/55/52 T. Kelsey Coll., HEN: Vol I, p. 819