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Long before sheep and cattle ranching spread across these mountain lands in the second half of the nineteenth century, ancient Hawaiians traveled this rugged ʻāina mauna to collect birds and rock and for religious purposes. Fine-grained rock from Maunakea adze quarries at Keanakākoʻi was prized throughout the islands. In the land of the Humuʻula Saddle, bird catchers took ʻuaʻu, nēnē, and koloa for food, while other birds were valued for their colorful feathers, which were used to make cloaks and helmets worn by aliʻi. After World War II, Shipman's Puʻuʻōʻō Ranch built Saddle House as a one-room structure for cooking and storing saddles; it was later enlarged to its present size and served as the main ranch house before being returned in 1974 to the state's Waiākea Forest Reserve.
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