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Ha'amonga 'a Maui is constructed from three coral limestone slabs. It is 5.2m high, 1.4m wide, and 5.8m long. The weight of the visible part of each upright stone is approximately 30–40 tons. Deep mortises are cut into the top of each upright stone to fit the lintel.
Since 1972, the site around the monument has been protected as the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui Historical Park. [1] [2] About a hundred metres away from the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui is the Maka Faʻakinanga, an upright stone slab "with markings on the front resembling an indentation of a large head, shoulders and back". Oral history has it that the slab ...
English: Side view of Remarkable Stone; [Mua, Tonga, c1880 to 1889]. The Haʻamonga trilithon was built in the 13th century by the 11th Tuʻi Tonga Tuʻitātui. The Haʻamonga trilithon was built in the 13th century by the 11th Tuʻi Tonga Tuʻitātui.
English: Front view of Remarkable Stones; [Mua, Tonga, c1880 to 1889]. The Haʻamonga trilithon was built in the 13th century by the 11th Tuʻi Tonga Tuʻitātui. (Information from Daly, Mart
It is located close to the Ha'amonga 'a Maui stone on the extreme northeast corner of the island. It was the first capital of the Tu'i Tonga Empire. It had a population of 671 in 2016. [1] Niutoua was the famous residence of the Tu'itonga. Before Niutoua. It was called Heketa. Places of Interest: Ha'amonga a Maui (Uasila'a)
Centuries before Westerners arrived, Tongans created megalithic stoneworks. Most notably, these are the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui and the Langi terraced tombs. The Haʻamonga is 5 meters high and made of three coral-lime stones that weigh more than 40 tons each.
Te Papa's label for this sculpture explains that it depicts the eye of the demigod Maui in a stone surround, and that the form is based on that of the ancient stone monuments found in Tonga. A loose translation of the title is "the vision of Maui". [22] An example of a massive ancient Tongan stone monument is Ha'amonga 'a Maui.
Until the 15th century Maui comprised three chiefdoms: Wailuku, Lele (Lahaina), and Hana. Eventually all of West Maui was consolidated at Wailuku, with Hana remaining an independent chieftaincy. West Maui and East Maui permanently merged about 1550 when King Piʻilani married the daughter of Hoʻolae, the 6th Aliʻi Nui of Hana. From that time ...