County: Maui
Site_Name: Makehau Heiau
Island: Maui
Traditional_District: Hana
District: Hana
Ahupuaa: Wailuanui
Site_Function: Heiau Open terr/platfrm
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 1-1-06:47
State_Site_Number: 50-50-07-097
BM_site_number: 50-Ma-A05-004
Project_Number: 090
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Surveyor: R. Connolly
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 00SEP1963 1974
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Form_of_Ownership: Private
Owner: Dorothea Lum Hoy
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SiteType: Makehau Heiau, said to have been a heiau of two platforms, the higher one a platform of 43 x 72 feet, but apparently once much larger. For agriculture perhaps. Now heavily overgrown and in complete ruin. Latitude: 20-50-41 Longitude: 156-08-06
Bibliography: W.M.Walker,1931, Arch. of Maui, Ms in BPBM, pp. 197, 214 L.J. Soehren, 1963, Arch. Survey of Portions of E. Maui, Hawaii, Ms in BPBM, p. 214 T.G. Thrum, Tales from the Temples, Part 3, Thrum's Hawaiian Annual,pp. 44-54 Sites Index, Card File, Dept. of Anthropology, BPBM J.F.G. Stokes, 1918, More Maui Heiau, in Maui Sites, Thrum/Stokes, p. 12, 127 Statewide Inventory, 1974
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