Where the Land Was Divided

In 1848 the Great Mahele divided Hawaiian land among the Crown, the government, the aliʻi, and (via the 1850 Kuleana Act) the makaʻāinana. This page overlays four real Maui districts from the 1929 territorial government's official index of those awards onto the modern ahupuaʻa map -- a traditional land division, not a legal claim about any current owner. This is an ahupuaʻa-level overlay (which district held which claims), not a reconstruction of each individual claim's exact historical boundary -- no free source for that finer precision exists yet (checked: Ulukau's free database covers only Kauaʻi/Niʻihau; a true parcel-level GIS join would require confirming export terms with OHA's Kipuka database). Four of many Maui districts are shown here -- a real, bounded sample, not full coverage of the 1929 Index's ~1,700 pages.