Walled Fish Traps of Pearl Harbor. 25 
one trap known as Pakule is claimed by older Hawaiians to have 
been entered by every fish except the whale(!) and to have retained 
every kind except the amaama, which latter could find its way out 
over the walls. 
Three traps now remain, the largest called ‘‘Pakule’’ (origi- 
nally without doubt Pa akule, the akule pen, since the akule was 
the most important fish taken therein) on the west bank of the 
channel at Hammer Point. In this trap (Fig. 1) were caught all 
the fishes just mentioned except the makiawa. In modern times 
sharks have been captured within its confines, and it now goes by 
the name of ‘‘The Shark Pen’’ among the white residents. The 
other two traps (Figs. 2 and 3) are called ‘‘Pa makiawa’’ and are 
situated, one on the west of the channel at the point called Puleou 
and now sometimes misnamed Pookala (which was formerly the 
name for Waipio Point), and the other on the east of the channel 
between the place called Keanapuaa and Awaawaolohe bay. In 
these the makiawa was taken. Formerly there was another trap on 
the east bank of the channel at Bishop Point, which has been in 
ruins as far back as any modern native can remember; it has been 
removed and the stones used to build a small pier near the point. 
From descriptions it has been gathered that the shape, position 
and use were the same as the pa makiawa at Keanapuaa. 
The general shape of the three fish traps is alike. A heavy 
‘curved wall following generally the direction of the shore was built 
in the deeper water, and, turning back for about one-third of the 
distance, formed a pocket and acted as one side of the entrance. 
From the turn another wall ran out to deep water as a leader. 
From the shore side of the entrance a wall was constructed, first 
parallel with and then directly to the shore, diminishing in size as 
the water shoaled. ‘The rear end of the outer wall and the beach 
were joined by another wall. The walls varied in width from a 
single line of stones near the shore to from three to six feet in 
the deepest part, and were built of blocks of coral reef rock 
averaging in size eighteen by fifteen by six inches. 
On the walls of the Pakule running shorewards were many 
pieces of dark basalt and of a curious black indurated mud 
resembling adobe. At several places along the bank of the 
channel a stratum of the latter substance crops out between two 
strata of reef rock, and at Keanapuaa this sedimentary deposit 
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