Individual Details

Paumakua (Oahu)

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LINEAGE
Conflict: Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 1 p 194;
He Kuauhau Alii o Hawaii Nei, G-9;
Pukui, Hawaiian Genealogies, p 25;
Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 401
insert 2 generations, identifying parents as Kapalakuakalani or Kapela-kua-ka-lani (w) and Pau, son of Kahiki-ha'a-ueue and Lono-wahi-lani, son of Lono-honua-newa (k)and Loi-loa (w).
LIFE
A. Born at Kuaaohe in Kaneohe, Koolaupoko, Oahu (Kamakau, Tales and Traditions of the People of Old, p 96). Born at Kua-a-ohe, Koolaupoko and ruled there (Kamakau, Tales and Traditions of the People of Old, p 101).
B. "Paumakua of the Puna line, whom the Oahu and Kauai chiefs exalted and glorified as their ancestor" (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 26).
C. "Paumakua, who first appeared in native annals two generations before the time of Olapana and his brothers, either as an immigrant from one of the southern islands or the son or grandson of a chief of recent arrival.... It is claimed by tradition that Paumakua visited all the foreign lands then known to the Hawaiians, and brought back with him many things that were strange. from one of his voyages he returned with two white priests, Keakea and Maliu, from whom several ecclesiastical families subsequently claimed descent and authority. At another time he brought back Malela, a noted prophet and sorcerer, and three other persons of a strange race, one of whom was a woman. Tradition somewhat minutely describes them as 'foreigners of a large stature, bright, staring, roguish eyes, and reddish faces.'.... it is not impossible that [these] foreigners ... were aborigines of North America" (Kalakaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, p 119).
D. "Paumakua went back in land where they came from below the Puali isthmus in South America; the name they used to call Kahakaekaea-i-Aneki, or the Andes mountains" (Iaukea Genealogy, M70-1-2, p 5).

Events

Alt namePaumakuaaLonohoonewa
BirthKaneohe, Oahu

Families

SpouseKeananui ( - )
ChildMoeanaimua ( - )
FatherLonohuanewa ( - )
MotherLoiloa ( - )
SiblingLonoWahilani ( - )

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