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marked roadway and dam l)uildin_<4- of Kiha])iilaiii/ a kin^- of Maui, 

 "who caused the road from Kawaipapa to Kaholaoaka to be paved 

 with smooth rocks, eveu to the forests of Oopuloa, in Koolau, 

 ATaui." 



The stone sheUers are a necessary protection ag'ainst the fog, 

 rain, and cold wind frequently experienced at high altitudes. A 

 number of shelters on the rim of the crater are known to be of 

 modern construction. Some of them may have been used as sta- 

 tions for robbers, the professional oloJic, who waylaid travelers in 

 out of the way places, for several well-known localities in the 

 islands are traditionally known as headquarters for robber bands. 

 So important a route for the trade of Alaui is not likely to have 

 been overlooked. 



The use of the craters within Haleakala as burial places, far 

 removed from places of habitation, is quite in keeping with ancient 

 Hawaiian practice. Distance and difTficulties were no bar to faith- 

 ful execution^ in carrying out the instruction of a dying relative 

 or friend.'^ 



Tradition refers to several localities on Haleakala as burial 

 places of the chiefs of Nuu." One such cave was known to be 

 used by people of Hawaii.' 



The five-terraced structure in Halalii crater (PI. XXH, B, 

 and fig. 3, B) resembles the four-terraced heiau of the Polihale 

 temple at Alana, Kauai, but its location and the buried bones within 

 its walls indicate perhaps a different purpose in construction. 



Occasional burials in heiaus took place, but they appear to have 

 been rare and restricted to high chiefs and priests, persons quali- 

 fied to conduct religious ceremonies. Women were strictly kapued 

 from entering a heiau's sacred precincts in life, so naturally would 

 not be allowed to desecrate it in death. 



It is not improbable that the structure in the commanding 

 location on Summit Numl)er i is a heiau. though the bards make 

 no mention of it. If such it was no doubt — like the heiau for- 

 merly on the rim of Kilauea — designed for the worship of Pele, 



* B. P. Bishop Mus. Mem., vol. 5. p. 176. 1918-1919. 

 ° Idem, vol. 4, pp. 232-234. 1916-1917. 



* Idem, vol. 5, pp. 570-72, I9i7-'i8. 



' Pogue, J. F., Ka Moolelo Hawaii, p. 30, Honolulu, 1858. 



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