26 Director's Annual Report. 
is two feet deep. ‘The basaltic pieces, however, must have been 
brought from a distance of several miles. ‘Tradition has it that all 
the stones for the walls were brought from a hill in Kwa, Oahu, 
called ‘‘Puuopalalii’’ which is of volcanic origin; the earliest ac- 
count must have related to these few lava rocks. ‘The dark stones 
were more numerous along the north wall than on the south, and 
those found in position were about thirteen feet apart. The natives 


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PA MAKIAWA PA MAKIAWA 
at PULEOU near AWA AWA OLOHE 
PEARL HARBOR PEARL HARBOR e 
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FIG. 2. PLAN OF PA MAKIAWA FIG. 3. PLAN OF PA MAKIAWA 
AT PULEOU. NEAR KEANAPUAA,. 
called them ‘‘men’’ who drove back the fish attempting to pass 
over the wall. When newly laid, the dark stones would have con- 
trasted very strongly with the light color of the coral rock, and 
undoubtedly fulfilled their purpose then, but when seen, they were 
so thickly covered with mollusca and barnacles as to be well nigh 
indistinguishable from the rest. It has been claimed that the dark 
stones had been worked by hand to resemble sharks’ heads, but 
an examination showed them to have been the result of natural 
cleavages, and their shape undoubtedly influenced the builders in 
their selection. ‘The best shaped specimen of each kind of stone 
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