County: Maui
Site_Name: 'Opae'ula Heiau
Island: Molokai
Traditional_District: Molokai
District: West Molokai
Ahupuaa: Kalamaula
Site_Function: Heiau A-Walled enclosure Open terr/platfrm
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 5-2-09:
State_Site_Number: 50-60-03-121
BM_site_number: 50-Mo-B02-005
Project_Number: 090
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Surveyor: McCoy
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1974
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Form_of_Ownership: Hawaiian Home Lands
Owner: Hawaiian Home Lands
Owner_Address: P.O. Box 198, Hoolehua, Hawaii, 96729
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SiteType: 'Opae'ula Heiau. Stokes, "...probably a combination of platform and enclosure in line..Indications are that its length was at least 115 feet and width 44 feet...platform on W half was 65 feet long." Destroyed in 1899 to build pier at Kaunakakai. Latitude: 20-06-08 Longitude: 157-02-42
Bibliography: 69025, C.C.Summers, 1971, Molokai: A Site Survey, PAR 14, Site 121, pp. 84, 85 12375, W.T.Brigham, Heiau of Molokai. Part of Ms. Ancient Worship of the Hawaiian Islanders. BPBM Statewide Inventory, 1974
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