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- Kapuanoni, 2004
15408 hits
A heiau in the complex at Kahaluʻu said to have been built or enlarged by Kalaniopuʻu. The hotel has since been demolished by the landowner. - Iniʻikawai Heiau, 2005
15513 hits
A heiau within a resort complex in Kahaluʻu. - Keʻekū, 2005
8491 hits
The hotel in the background has since been demolished and the heiau reconstructed by noted stone mason Billy Fields. - Kealakowaʻa, 2006
18928 hits
A heiau associated with canoe building. It had been reconstructed by noted stone mason Billy Fiends, but suffered major damage in a large earthquake several years after this image was made. - Paniau, 2006
19295 hits
The residence of Lonoikamakahiki at Paniau, according to the Kekahuna map. Now, the location of the Keauhou Surf and Racket Club. - ʻŌhiʻamukumuku, 2007
18845 hits
The remains of Helani Church, built on ʻŌhiʻamukukuku Heiau at Keauhou. - Holualoa, 2007
20402 hits
The end of the vast Holua Loa at Keauhou. Cultural anthropologist Marion Kelly and Kenneth Emory witnessed the bulldozing of the lower portion of the heiau for the construction of the resort on the other side of the road. The landowner arranged for the demolition to happen on a Sunday, according to Marion Kelly. - Kapuanoni, 2008
23033 hits
The remaining portion of Kapuanoni, truncated by a hotel swimming pool. The hotel and its pool have been demolished since this image was made, and the heiau is to be reconstructed. - Makoleʻa, 2008
19466 hits
The heiau mauka of Keʻeku, associated with the aliʻi wahine Makoleʻa. It has since been reconstructed, along with Keʻekū and Hāpaialiʻi Heiau. - Keolanahihi, 2008
18919 hits
A pōhaku at the complex of Keolanahihi in Kailua-Kona. - Keolanahihi, 2008
20256 hits
A pōhaku at the complex of Keolanahihi in Kailua-Kona. - Training emplacement, Mākua, 2003
2696 hits - The ahu at Mākua, 2005
2560 hits
The ahu (shrine) is modern, constructed for cultural accesses to the valley conducted by Mālama Mākau, a community organization. In the distance lies the US Army observation tower for live fire training exercises. - Grenade training enclosure, Mākua, 2005
2695 hits
An enclosure built of tires for grenade throwing practice. - Off-limits area, Mākua, 2005
2758 hits
This area is permanently off limits because it is contaminated by "improved conventional munitions." Small round bombs will explode decades later if they are slightly moved. - Main gate, Mākua, 2009
2613 hits
The entrance to Mākua. Until recent decades the valley was unfenced and open. - US Army trench, Mākua Valley, 2002
2659 hits
A structure for live fire training exercises at Mākua. - UXO at Kahoʻolawe, 1994
3380 hits
1994. Ordnance projectiles gathered along the side of the dirt road at Kealialalo, part of the UXO clearance prior to the island being returned to the State of Hawaiʻi. Much UXO remains, however. - Kukiokāne, 2001
2246 hits
From where the heiau used to be located, now the H-3 Freeway - Haʻikū, 1990
2251 hits
The H-3 Freeway under construction in Ha’ikū Valley. - ʻEwa Beach International Golf Course
1855 hits
A probable family shrine, now a sand trap. The shrine was restored by cultural practitioner and anthropologist Rudy Mitchel. - Waipao Heiau, Hālawa
2749 hits
These disturbed stones are all that remains of Waipao Heiau, according to archaeologist Earl Neller. Neller positively identified this as the location of Waipao by matching the present valley ridge contour with the same contour in a photograph taken of the heiau by Arning early in the 20th century. - Kepuwai, 2001
2194 hits - Fishing shrine, Waiʻanae
3360 hits
This shrine contained two enclosures and more correctly might be called a heiau because of its size and complexity. Note the small platform in the corner. It is now occupied by a homeless person, who has moved and reconfigured many of the stones. - Pu’upāhe’ehe’e Heiau
3290 hits
The location of Paheʻeheʻe Heiau, now a plantation-era graveyard where former heiau stones may have been "repurposed." A section of ʻiliʻili pavement still remains in the grass to the rear of the graveyard. - Pōhaku within an enclosure, Waʻahila, 2002
2375 hits
Downhill mountain bikers destroyed the rear / mauka wall of the enclosure in order to construct the ramp, which allowed them to jump over the pōhaku and become airborne. - Pahuamaui, 2013
2219 hits
The Leahi (Diamond Head) lighthouse occupies the former site of Pahuamaui Heiau. An early photograph of the lighthouse may show sections of the foundations of its platforms. - Papaʻenaʻena, 2013
2706 hits
Marion Kelly was one of the last to see remnants of Papaʻenaʻena Heiau just before the construction of the tennis courts and townhouses below the former Dillingham mansion, now Hawai’i School for Girls. - Unrecorded heiau, 2013
2132 hits - Hawea, 1994
2124 hits
The remnant of the platform at Hawea heiau, with construction and dredging debris pushed up against it from the creation of the marina at Hawaiʻi Kai by Kaiser Development Corp. Note the lined pit in the foreground. - Enclosure at Waʻahila, 1998
2379 hits
The intact enclosure at Waʻahila, before the destruction of the low wall in the foreground by downhill mountain bikers. The site is now occupied by the tents of a homeless person. - Ipu o lono, 2015
2216 hits
Ipu o Lono is the name given to the pōhaku in a 1977 article in the Windward Sun Press, which also published an image of a stone 4-5 feet high at this spot. What happened to it is a mystery. Only a small remnant remains on a curbed earth platform. I remember the large stone at this spot from my childhood, when we made trips across the mountain on the old Pali Road. One was not supposed to bring pork past this stone at midnight. The stone was known to everyone in Kailua. - Area 1753 - engine from WW II plane crash
3078 hits
This plane crashed during WW II directly on the paved ala (pathway) in several other images in this album. All of the other fuselage has been removed, but the engine remains. - Ālula, 2005
20051 hits
One of several platforms at Haleolono, this one in a parking lot. The name of the heiau, according to a local Hawaiian Kumu Hula, is Ālula. - Ālula, 2005
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One of several platforms at Haleolono, this one in a parking lot. The name of the heiau, according to a local Hawaiian Kumu Hula, is Ālula. - Hāpaiali’i Heiau, 2004
18917 hits
Before the reconstruction of Hāpaiali’i. The hotel in the distance has since been demolished. - Kualiʻiliʻi Heiau, 2004
19712 hits
A heiau in Kailua-Kona on the grounds of a gated condominium complex. - Hāpaialiʻi 2013
25424 hits - Ordnance at Kahoʻolawe, 2015
3055 hits
The island was a naval bombing range for decades after WWII. Bombs like this can work their way to the surface, even in places scanned and cleared of UXO (unexploded ordnance). - Site 304 in Kaʻaʻawa, 1994
2566 hits
A member of the Auld family who grew up in this house reports that the heiau was located there in his youth. The house was subsequently purchased by a foreign family, and a swimming pool constructed where the main structure of the heiau was said to be. A section of the very large structure may remain in the adjacent yard. Other members of the family, however, cannot recall the heiau - which may have been destroyed much earlier. - Site 304 in Kaʻaʻawa, 1994
2506 hits
A member of the Auld family who grew up in this house reports that the heiau was located there in his youth. The house was subsequently purchased by a foreign family, and a swimming pool constructed where the main structure of the heiau was said to be. A section of the very large structure may remain in the adjacent yard. Other members of the family, however, cannot recall the heiau - which may have been destroyed much earlier. - Kalae o Kuonopuaʻa, 2008
2390 hits
Where the koʻa used to stand, according to McAllister. He comments that it was destroyed when the present road was built, and that one was never supposed to walk behind it. In the image is the WWII fortification that stands at the point where McAllisterʻs vague map places the fishing shrine. - Platform in area 1746, Kalaeloa, 2001
2403 hits
This platform was bulldozed by the US Army in a cleanup of an area contaminated by lead shotgun pellets at a recreational trap and skeet shooting range. Army archaeologists maintained that this is not a Hawaiian cultural structure. It was taken apart prior to being bulldozed. No bones or other cultural artifacts were found inside. - Small ahu (shrine) near the main gate, Kalaeloa, 2001
2437 hits
This shrine, visited in 2001 with cultural anthropologist Marion Kelly, was destroyed by the US Army in order to construct a large FBI building. Army archaeologists maintain that this is not a Hawaiian cultural site and that it was built on land that had been previously bulldozed during WWII for the construction of quonset huts. - Unusual zig-zag structure, Kalaeloa, 2008
2411 hits
This puzzling zig-zag structure barely escaped destruction by an organization that leased an adjacent parcel for car racing. Not visible in the image are upright stones forming the walls of the structure - a traditional construction technique in Tahiti sometimes also seen at Kalaeloa. Some archaeologists maintain that this is a modern military training structure, based on the presence of barbed wire. - UXO markers, Kahoʻolawe, 2016
2536 hits
Between the stakes lies the section cleared of UXO (unexploded ordnance) down to a depth of four feet. Outside the markers, the terrain has only been surface (visually) cleared. Other sections of the island in more inaccessible terrain have never been cleared and are off limits. - Kahoʻolawe, 2017
1830 hits
Sheets wrapped around kiawe logs, an attempt to catch topsoil being blown away by the strong winds that sweep the upland. - Kahoʻolawe, 2017
1945 hits
Several 500-ton blasts of TNT made this crater in 1965. It was an attempt by the US Navy to mimic the effects of a nuclear blast and to study its efffects on ships moored nearby. Water in the crater used to be brackish but is now entirely saline - Kahoʻolawe, 2017
1880 hits
This dirt track allows access to sections of the hard pan being replanted with native vegetation. It lies just above Hakioawa Bay. Between the posts, ground has been cleared for UXO down to a depth of four feet. - Pōhaku and homeless camp at Wa’ahila, 2010
945 hits
The pōhaku in the distance lies in an enclosure above the UH faculty apartments on Dole St. in Honolulu. A homeless lady has set up camp inside the enclosure. Cultural experts from a large Native Hawaiian organization have determined that the site is a heiau.