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M. ROY:I have marked in yellow this wall here on the map presentation of, done by Kekahuna and Naluahine Kaopua, marking this wall as she GIFFIN:Thank you very much. Mr. Vitousek, you can go ahead and continue. VITOUSEK:IÓm sorry, I think I had asked you the question in terms of, say that that section of the wall is relatively intact. Is that correct? KANAHELE:Yeah. VITOUSEK:Okay. And what do you do with your students when you g that wall? KANAHELE:Well, initially we talk about, prior to our being there, we talk about her sacredness and looking at the wall as a protection of her personal sacredness of her house where she resides. We also go, eventually go around that wall. And then weÓll talk about all of the other sites thatÓs around there and how they aid in, as part of her living quarters. VITOUSEK:And, so, you walk through, walk around through the bala site, is that correct? KANAHELE:Yes. VITOUSEK:And youÓre able to, by doing that, are you able to give the students the understanding of the relationship of the different sites to each other and to their function? KANAHELE:For as much as we can see it, yes. VITOUSEK:Yeah. And what is it that would, that interferes with your ability to see it? KANAHELE:Most of it has to do with the overgrowth; and then after we get up above her house, the other houses thatÓs in front of it. And we can still hear the waves and we still hear the people thatÓs there. And being able to go around it to come back down we cannot do that because thereÓs people living in front of it. But being able to go around it and coming back down would give them a fuller view of VITOUSEK:And so that, but thatÓs, itÓs restricted by the houses that are there already, isnÓt that correct, the houses that have been there for the, at least the 10 years that youÓve been going there with the students? IsnÓt that correct? KANAHELE:Yes. 22