Mahele Documents

04176
Claim Number: 04176
Claimant: Kanemanaole
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Molokai
District: Kona
Ahupuaa: Kawela
Ili: Puuonuu, Puanui
Statistics: 3357 characters 547 words
No. 4176, Kanemanaole
N.R. 95-96v7


Greetings to the Land Commissioners: I have a claim in the Ahupua'a of Kawela on the Island of Molokai, Hawaiian Islands. It is an 'ili named Puuonuu, lying inland from the wall of the fishpond at the sea, the land boundary is between the Ahupua'a of Kawela and the Ahupua'a* of Mapulehu /sic/; it lies along the shallow sea east, that is the land boundary at the 'ili to the eastward; the 'ili of Kaalaea adjoins on the west.

This 'ili was given me by a makuahine of mine -- it became mine and I have occupied it from along ago.

I have consumed the produ ....

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.... eived it from Kaulahiwa in the time of Kamehameha I.

Kekiekie, sworn: All the foregoing testimony is true; my knowledge of it is the same. I am the Konohiki of this land. He possesses the taro land under the Konohiki.


N.T. 144v6 [also page 65]
4176, Kanemanaole

Kumoho, sworn, a pasture in ili land of Punonuu in Kawela.

[It is bounded]:
Mauka by mountain
Manae by pali
Makai by pond
Malalo by Ehu.

Kanemanaole lived there at the time of Naea in 1836, no one objected.

[Award 4176; R.P. 6244; Puanui Kawela Kona; 2 ap.; 4.16 Acs; Puuonuu Kawela Kona; 1 ap.; .23 Ac.]