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marked roadway and dam building of Kihapiilani,* a king of Maui, 
“who caused the road from Kawaipapa to Kaholaoaka to be paved 
with smooth rocks, even to the forests of Oopuloa, in Koolau, 
Maui.” 
The stone shelters are a necessary protection against 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 olohe, 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 Maui 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 difficulties 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.6 One such cave was known to be 
used by people of Hawaii." 
The five-terraced structure in Halalii crater (Pl. XXII, B, 
and fig. 3, &) resembles the four-terraced heiau of the Polihale 
temple at Mana, 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 Number 1 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. 10916-1917. 
“Idem, vol. 5, pp. 570-72, 1917-18. 
* Pogue, J. F., Ka Moolelo Hawaii, p. 30, Honolulu, 1858. 
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