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County: Kauai
Site_Name: Akowai Heiau.
Island: Kauai
Traditional_District: Others
District: Waimea
Ahupuaa: Hanapepe, Waimea
Site_Function: Heiau
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 1-8-
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BM_site_number: 50-Ka-C01-002
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Surveyor: Bennett
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1931
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SiteType: Akowai Heiau, at a place called Akowai, on the steeply sloping side of a bluff. Described by Thrum as "A small paved heiau of about 50 feet square...Destroyed about 1865."
Bibliography: W.C.Bennett, Arch. of Kauai, 1931, Site 56, p. 113, amd figure 31, p. 115