250 Occasional Papers Bernice P. Bishop Museum 
KEAHUOKAHOLU GROUP 
From Puu Maui, the highest cone in the Crater, a ridge of 
red sand extends through the middle of Koolau Gap and is crossed 
by Halemauu trail at Keahuokaholo. Near this point and along- 
side of the trail is a curved stone wall 34 feet long, 4% feet wide 
and 3% feet high. Sand has nearly covered the middle. One 
hundred and fifty feet southeast of the wall is an ahu 3 by 4 feet. 
On mounting the ridge of Keahuokaholo a surprising num- 
ber of piles of stone come into view; some having thick bases, 
others having one stone as a base. We counted between 40 and 
50 within a radius of too yards. East of the entrance of the trail 
from the Halalii side are 28 stone shelters. Among these we col- 
lected about 15 water-worn pebbles. Five had been laid together 
next to a ruined shelter and 3 at another shelter. There were 
about as many ahus and shelters north of the entrance as south 
of it. The structure farthest away on the north is a platform 
Qg feet by 3% feet, and 1% feet high. 
On the west border of Keahuokaholo are about 50 small 
ahus. A ruined platform lies too feet south and another, measur- 
ing 314 feet by 12 feet, is 300 feet to the northeast on the edge of 
a ravine, and 200 feet farther northeast is a large flat rock, three 
feet high, covered by a single layer of rough stones. 
A few minutes walk from Keahuokaholo on the Leleiwi trail 
brought us to a platform 3% feet wide and 12 feet long built of 
thin slabs of aa lava. About ten minutes later we reached the lava 
tube known as Long Cave, near which are three large stone sleep- 
ing shelters. With Dr. George Aiken as guide, Mr. Walter 
Walker and myself followed the cave for three-quarters of a mile 
without reaching its end. 
A short distance north of the trail from Long Cave is the 
pit, Na Piko Haua, 10 feet deep and 15 feet in diameter, in which 
we found tucked away in crevices the umbilical cords of Kaupo 
babies. Some of the cords were in colored cloth wrapped with the 
hair of the child’s mother, and others were preserved in small 
glass bottles; the presence of the recently hidden cords testifies to 
the strength of superstition among present-day natives. I have 
heard two explanations of this custom. Mr. Poouahi, from Kaupo, 
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