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Comm. 25-020 <br />PONC Questions & Response <br />Re: Waiakahiula <br />• What makes the auha (canoe shed) "unique" to Puna? <br />We would like to point out that the auha is not on either of the properties that are <br />currently up for discussion: TMK 3-1-5-63:042 and TMK 3-1-5-63:043. It is located inside <br />the County of Hawaii Park, which is expected to have an AIS completed in the near <br />future. <br />The auha was listed on the 1974 Bishop Museum Archaeological Survey and states the <br />following: <br />Ha-AS-1 Canoe Shed Category I <br />This site was previously recorded by Bishop Museum and <br />assigned the number Ha-AS-1 (Fig. 5). It is part of a small complex <br />of structures which possibly represent the Waiakahiula village at <br />which Ellis stopped in 1823 [1969:305]. <br />The, canoe shed and the area around it containing several <br />other structures is in the process of being turned over to the <br />County of Hawaii for a park. This is probably described as site 84 <br />by Hudson [n.d.:309]. <br />The canoe shed consists of standing walls varying form 0.70 <br />to 1 m in width, 0.75 m in height, and 7 to 9 m in length. <br />Figure 5. DOUBLE CANOE SHED AT WAIAKAHIULA VILLAGE, HAWAII. <br />This auha is also the last canoe shed that exists along the cliffs in the ahupua`a of <br />Waiakahiula. <br />N.Woo-O'Brien & L.Gouker <br />June 2025 <br />1 <br />