Walled Fish Traps oj 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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