| Feature: | Heiau |
| Comments: | Heiau described by archaeologist Winslow Walker following a survey of Kaupo in 1929: "Location: In a little shelter on the hills about 1000 feet N.E. of the Nuu salt pond and 50 yards below the trail. Description: A medium sized heiau 73 x 64 feet. It is walled all the way around and has a large paved court and two higher terraces. The entrance is on the N.W. side. The walls are 4 and 5 feet high and some fragments of shell and coral can be found in them. The large square-shaped pit in the court may have been the luakini but no evidence of sacrificial refuse was obtained from it. There is another small pit near the corner of the wall. There is a small 10 foot square platform at the north corner which excavation revealed as a grave. Stones were laid up 2 feet above the ground and the burial was found at a depth of 5 feet. Charcoal and ashes were found above it, but the skeleton was intact. The body was flexed and the head turned toward the west. Very likely it was the grave of the kahu of the heiau, but no artifacts were found with the skeleton." Also described in the Hawaiian Ethnological Notes collection at the Bishop Museum: "Nuu was the ahupuaa; Halekou the ancient heiau; Papa-kea the heiau for multiplying food plants and Ukulaelae the heiau for multiplying fish." |
| Location: | Unknown |
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| Further reading: | Papakea heiau (Ulukau.org) |