Mauna Kea Science Reserve and Hale Pohaku Complex Development Update: 
Oral History and Consultation Study, and Archival Literature Research

Contents

INTRODUCTION                                              
Background                                                                              • 1
Project Setting: A Cultural Landscape                                • 1
Overview: Study Guidelines and Presentation                  • 3
Oral History Interviews and Consultation Records
of the Mauna Kea Study                                                          • 4
Archival Research                                                                   • 5
 
MAUNA KEA ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
AND CONSULTATION PROGRAM (September-December 1998)                        • 6
Study Background                                                                     • 6
Development of the Oral History-Consultation Program  • 7
Interview Methodology                                                            • 10
 
Overview of Information Recorded
Through Interviews and Consultation                                   • 11
Heiau (Ceremonial Sites) and Spiritual Significance        • 14
Trails and Access                                                                        • 16
Burial Practices and Sites                                                         • 18
Waiau                                                                                              • 19
Keanakāko‘i (or Kaluakāko‘i) - Adze Quarries                   • 22
Landscape                                                                                       • 23
Development                                                                                  • 25
 
Cultural Attachment - Cultural Properties and Practices in the lives  f Hawaiian Practitioners                                                  • 27
Cultural Assessment                                                                     • 27
 
Overview of Recommendations Made by Interviewees
and Consultation Participants                                                 • 34
 
REFERENCES CITED                                                          • 36
TABLES
Table 1. Interviewee Background                                          • 12
Table 2a. Traditional Cultural Properties                          • 29
Table 2b. Traditional and Customary Cultural Practices • 32
Table 2c. Contemporary Cultural Practices                          • 33
 
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1. Mauna Kea, Island of Hawai‘i
(with Districts of Hilo, Hāmākua and Kohala)                  • 2
Figure 2. Annotated Interview Map (Showing Approximate
Locations of Sites Referenced During Interviews)       • at end of study
Figure 3. Mauna Kea Oral History Study List of General Questions                                                                                                           • 8
Figure 4. Public Notice of Undertaking of Oral History Study
and Request for Input                                                                 • 10
 
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Mauna Kea Oral History Interview Transcripts
and Release of Interview Transcripts                                                • A-1
(with an Index to Selected Subjects Discussed
in the Oral History Interviews)
Appendix B: Mauna Kea Oral History Study
and Consultation - Contact Log                                                       • B-1
Appendix C: Excerpts of Information Recorded as a Part of the
Mauna Kea Advisory Committee Public Hearings                 • C-1
Appendix D: Mauna Kea - An Overview of Archival
and Historical Documentary Research                                         • D-1
Appendix E: Limited Overview of the Hawai‘i Loa Traditions • E-1

  

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