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The Puna-Kāʻu Historic District is an archaeological district located on the Puna-Kāʻu coastline in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.The district includes over 300 sites occupied by Polynesians from the 13th through 19th centuries.
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A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America , scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images.
Artworks produced by Hawaii’s native born and long-term residents incorporating western materials and ideas include paintings on canvas and quilts. They may be distinctly Hawaiian in subject matter or as diverse as their places of origin. Most of the art currently produced in Hawaii falls into this third category.
This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in Hawaiʻi.The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
This is a list of properties and districts on the island of Hawaiʻi in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The island is coterminous with Hawaiʻi County, the state's only county that covers exactly one island.
Features include loko iʻa (Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture fishponds), kahua (house site platforms), kiʻi pōhaku (petroglyphs), hōlua (stone slides) and heiau (religious sites). The ʻAiʻopio Fishtrap is a 1.7-acre (0.69 ha) pond, with a stone wall forming an artificial enclosure along the naturally curved shoreline of a bay.