County: Honolulu
Site_Name: Waimalu Burial Cave.
Island: Oahu
Traditional_District: Ewa
District: Ewa
Ahupuaa: Waimalu
Site_Function: D-Rockshel/lavatube I-Burial
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 9-8-
State_Site_Number: 50-80-09-2311
BM_site_number: 50-Oa-B02-007
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Surveyor: Emory
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 00SEP1953
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SiteType: Waimalu Burial Cave. Long, narrow cave, divided into two rooms with built-up terraces lining each side of cave. Cave has been ransacked; many bones, but disturbed from original positions and broken into small pieces. Below this cave are smaller caves with burials. ARTIFACTS.
Bibliography: Plan: Book Burials, H.1. April, 1957. See description: carved wooden bowl found by Richard Nishiro at mouth of cave, and presented to Bishop Museum. Advertiser, Sept. 13, 1953; Star-Bulletin, Sept. 26, 1953. Summer's Ewa, Vol. 1 Sterling/Summers, 1962, BPBM Press, Sites of Oahu, p. 14 Photos: Kodachrome slide, Aug. 1953, of cave Photos of bowl, 23245 a,b,c
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