Mahele Documents

05203
Claim Number: 05203
Claimant: Kauhale
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Molokai
District: Kona, East
Ahupuaa: Halawa
Ili: Hopuhewa, Mokuhewa
Statistics: 2994 characters 499 words
No. 5203, Kauhale
N.R. 168-169v7


Greetings to the Land Commissioners: We have a claim in the Ahupua`a of Halawa on the Island of Molokai. The name of this `ili is Mokuhewa, and it is bounded on the mauka side by the `ili of Manawai, for Kahinu, and on the makai side by the `ili of Hopuhewa, for Kueeau.

We have occupied this claim from ancient times. Paia, the konohiki, gave it to Lukini, my makuakane, /and it has been held/ from then until the present. Timoteo is the konohiki at present. I have occupied and cultivated this land until this time. I have gone to ....

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.... hich was when she died. Kepaa received it from her kupunas, in the time of Kamehameha I and it was held in quiet possession until this time, without dispute. The lo'is of the Konohiki are separate, outside.

Kekahuna, sworn, The foregoing testimony is true, the same as my knowledge of it.


N.T. 179v6 [also page 100]
No. 5203, Kauhale

1 poalima and taro pasture in ili land of Hopuhewa in Halawa.

[It is bounded]:
Mauka by Kahinu
Makai by Peleleu, Kueau.

[Award 5203; R.P. 2481; Hopuhewa 2 Halawa 1 ap. 1.72 Ac.]