Inoa | Name(s)
ʻEwa
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Hālawa; ʻAiea; Kalauao; Waimalu; Waiau; Waimano; Mānana; Waiawa; Waipiʻo; Waikele; Hōʻaeʻae; Honouliuli; Ke Awalau o Puʻuloa
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Oʻahu
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Oʻahu. Aia kēia moku ma waena o ka moku o Kona, ma ka ʻaoʻao Hema, a me Waiʻanae, ma ka ʻaoʻao Komohana. Wahi a ke mele “Pūpū aʻo ʻEwa”, ʻO Kaʻala ke “Kuahiwi kaulana a ʻo ʻEwa.” ʻO Ke Awalau o Puʻuloa kahi kaulana loa o ka moku ʻo ʻEwa no nā pipi, i kapa nui ʻia nā pūpū a ʻo ʻEwa a me ka iʻa hāmau leo no ka hāmau ʻana o nā leo o nā kānaka iā lākou e kuʻi ʻana i nā pipi ma ke kai. Kaulana pū nā pipi no nā momi a o ia kekahi kumu ua kapa hou ʻia ke awalau iā “Pearl River” a me “Pearl Harbor” a kapa hou ʻia kekahi ʻāpana nui o ʻEwa iā “Pearl City.” Ua kaulana pū ke awalau no nā ʻaumākua manō kaulana ʻo Kaʻahupāhau a me Kahiʻukā, nā mea i mālama i nā kamaʻāina o kēia wahi mai nā manō ʻaikanaka no waho, a nona ke kumu ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo “Alahula Puʻuloa, he alahele na Kaʻahupāhau.” He nui ʻino nā loko iʻa o kēia wahi ma ka wā kahiko a kaulana ʻo ʻEwa i ke kalo kaīkoi. Ma Honouliuli, aia ʻelua wahi kapu nui, ʻo ka mua, ʻo Kaupeʻa, kahi o nā “poʻe ʻuhane haukaʻe” (Kamakau, Ka Poʻe Kahiko, 49), a ʻo ka lua, ʻo ia ʻo Puʻu o Kapolei, kahi puʻu kaulana ma ka moʻolelo o Kamapuaʻa, a ma laila nō i noho ai kona kupunawahine ʻo Kamauluniho. No kēlā puʻu i kapa ʻia ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Kapolei. I kēia wā, ua lilo nā inoa kahiko o kēia wahi a ua laha he mau inoa ʻē aʻe no nā kūlanakauhale o kēia wā e like me: ʻAiea, Pearl City, Waipahu, Waipiʻo Gentry, Kunia, ʻEwa, ʻEwa Beach, a me Kapolei.
Description
Plantation, plantation town, elementary school, and quadrangle west of Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu. Literally, crooked. (Kāne and Kanaloa threw a stone to determine district boundaries. The stone was lost but was found later at Pili-o-Kahe. See PE, ʻewaʻewa; Ii 98; Sterling and Summers 1:8; UL 84.) (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “ʻEwa” no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka ʻāina a me ka poʻe o ka moku o ʻEwa. No nā kumuwaiwai pili i nā ʻāina i kapa ʻia ʻo ʻEwa Beach a me ʻEwa o kēia wā, e koho pū iā “Honouliuli” ʻoiai, aia kēia mau ʻāina ma nā palena o ke ahupuaʻa o Honouliuli, ma ka moku o ʻEwa.
Instructions
Use ʻEwa for anything related to ʻāina within the traditional boundaries of the moku of ʻEwa as well as for the area that is contemporarily known as ʻEwa or ʻEwa Beach as it falls within the bounds of the traditional boundaries of the moku of ʻEwa. For materials that are about what is contemporarily known as ʻEwa Beach or ʻEwa area also use “Honouliuli.”
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Kaʻahupāhau; Kahiʻukā; Kaihuopalaʻai; Makanikeoe
Kanaka | Person: John Papa ʻĪʻī; Sarah Keliʻilolena Nākoa; Kānekuaʻana,
Hana | Practice: Lawaiʻa; Holo waʻa; Mahiʻai
Kūmole | Source(s)
“Hālau Puʻuloa inventory binder,” University of Hawai’i System Repository.
Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. Place Names of Hawaii. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
Sterling, Elspeth P., and Catherine C. Summers. Sites of Oahu. [Rev. ed.]. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1993.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: “Kelea-nui-noho-‘ana-‘api‘api” (1865), Lei momi o Ewa, He moʻolelo ʻāina : some traditions and storied places of Honouliuli
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai