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YUEN:I donÓt know. I thought she lived in Kau, to tell you the truth. She was a kamaaina who was interested in Hawaiian history and studies, and was known as a local historian, fairly well-known individual in that, in that field. So thatÓs all I know about her. I donÓt think I , I donÓt know if I ever met her. But sheÓs, sheÓs known in the community as a person who tried to study and learn about Hawaiia GIFFIN:And she was quoted in the application, the former application as given credence to the fact that PuÒu Nui was an actual place? YUEN:This is, yes. I mean, this is somebody said Violet Hansen said that she heard that the name was PuÒu Nui. GIFFIN:Okay. Now did they give a date when, I mean, I know you mentioned the date of the former application. YUEN:Yes. GIFFIN:And this was in that background report or whatever it was for the application, is that what youÓre saying? YUEN:I think it was in someoneÓs testimony or in a letter, and I canÓt remember what. There was a fair amount of the same, some of the same kinds of things that weÓre talking about today at the time of that application, more in the sense of trying to, there was more about trying to determine where some heiau were that are mentioned in the old records. But I know this came up. I have the file in the car. I can try dig it out to get exactly what was said. But this is just something that came up in 1980. When she got the information, I donÓt know. GIFFIN:And then you said in 1936, the subject property received a separate tax lot, a tax map key number? YUEN:Some time, some time before 1936, because the first tax map have date from about 1936, and youÓll see this was already a one and quarter acre lot. I think that the size, I think there has been a slight change to the boundaries since then on the lower lot side. But, other than that, the lot itself must have been created before 1936. And the only, I was hoping that this would come out in some of the testimony. In the National Register Application, there is title, thereÓs a little bit of title information about the property after the award to Loe. GIFFIN:Yes. YUEN:It says that Loe passed away. And then it says that in the 1980Ós, Queen Kapiolani bought a 2/3 interest in Grant 7-2-2-8, thatÓs a larger property now; and that a man named MoÓe who is a descendant of Loe retained a third. And then it doesnÓt say anything. And notice, I mean, this is not, this property, that report is, of course, not 4