County: Maui
Site_Name: Napua Heiau
Island: Maui
Traditional_District: Hana
District: Hana
Ahupuaa: Papauluana/Kaumakani
Site_Function: Heiau Open terr/platfrm
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 1-6-03:8
State_Site_Number: 50-50-17-133
BM_site_number: 50-Ma-A21-001
Project_Number: 090
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Surveyor: Walker/Thrum
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1974
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Form_of_Ownership: Private
Owner: The Nature Conservancy
Owner_Address: 1800 North Kent Street Arlington, Virginia, 22209
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SiteType: Napua Heiau. Described by Walker in 1929. Thrum speaks of it as only a small temple of the "hooulu ai" class, but informant J.Kamai said it was of the "Pookanaka class", and more powerful than any other heiau in Kipahulu. Believed to be destroyed. Not located by Soehren in 1963. Latitude: 20-40-10 Longitude: 156-03-03
Bibliography: W.M. Walker, 1931, Arch. of Maui, Site 33, p. 203 L.J. Soehren, 1963, Arch. Survey of Portions of East Maui, p. 22 T.G. Thrum, 1917, Maui's Heiaus and Heiau Sites, Revised, Thrum's Hawaiian Annual, pp.125-128 Statewide Inventory, 1974
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