248 Occasional Papers Bernice P. Bishop Museum 
MAMANI GROUP 
A group of eleven platforms that presented some types new 
to us were discovered at the foot of Mamani Hill (Kalua Ma 
mani). A small terraced platform rests on the west slope o1 
Mamani where it joins the floor of the Crater. It measures 
124% by 4% feet, lies northeast and southwest, and is 1% feet high 
along the front. It is very similar to the lower terraces of the 
north and south Hanakauhi platforms. and its dimensions are the 
same as the east platform. 
Two hundred feet southwest from this platform is an un- 
usual square structure, raised on a knoll. It is 4% feet on the 
north, 6 feet on the south, 4% feet on the east, and 6 feet on the 
west. It is 1% feet high except on the east and south sides which 
are a foot higher, forming a shelf 2 feet wide. 
One hundred and fifty feet west of this is an unimposing 
structure of slabs from an aa lava flow, laid one upon the other 
to a height of 1% feet in the form of a rectangle 3% feet by 7. 
This and the structures described below lay on the sands at the 
edge of an old lava flow issuing from Dante’s Inferno. They 
are oriented parallel to it—that is, northeast and southwest—and 
extended in a line towards the northeast. 
The next structure, one hundred feet away, differs markedly 
from the others in having a T shape. The stem of the T is 3 feet 
square and on the east joins, about in the middle, the platform, 
which is 15 feet long by 5 feet wide and 2 feet high. A platform 
30 feet farther on is 19% feet long, 3% feet wide, and=2 fees 
high. 
Nine‘y feet beyond this are two structures a few feet apart. 
They are almost square, measuring 4 by 6 feet, and not more than 
2 feet high. Several yards away from these is a platform 13 
feet long, 3 feet wide, and 1% feet high, which rests upon a solid 
lava flow. Ten yards from this platform is a miniature one, 
2 by 3 feet, and 1 foot high. — 
Two hundred feet south on a part of the same flow is an 
area © feet square and less than a foot high, paved with stones. 
We removed the stones to make sure that they concealed no crack 
or opening in the lava. One hundred feet east on the very edge 
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