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County: Maui
Site_Name: Weloka Heiau
Island: Molokai
Traditional_District: Molokai
District: East Molokai
Ahupuaa: Waialua
Site_Function: Heiau Open terr/platfrm A-Walled enclosure
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 5-7-3:24
State_Site_Number: 50-60-05-225
BM_site_number: 50-Mo-A06-004
Project_Number: 090
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Surveyor: McCoy/Summers/Stokes/Thrum
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1974
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Form_of_Ownership: Private
Owner: George Murphy
Owner_Address: Star Route, Kaunakakai, HI. 96748
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SiteType: Weloka Heiau. An enclosure with unsual interior platform and battered walls. Stokes, n. d. "General measurements... 120 x 175 feet...used later as graveyard,..now impossible to follow the lines." Thrum, 1909, "..about 40 x 60 feet, in partial ruins. Noted as place where Kamehameha-nui was reared". Statewide Inventory, "Heiau 26 x 34m. Interior platform 14m on N wall. 10 historic graves on S side." Latitude: 21-06-07 Longitude: 156-45-45
Bibliography: 69025, C.C. Summers, 1971, Molokai: A Site Survey, PAR 14, Site 225, pp. 148, 149 Statewide Inventory, 1974 Photos: B/W, SMO(a)48-31