ISLAND HISTORY: ‘Moke’ Wilson and the Bell Stones

ISLAND HISTORY: ‘Moke’ Wilson and the Bell Stones

The Wailua Bell Stone — a fairly flat, oblong-shaped, roughly 12-foot-square hollow stone that produces a bell-like tone when struck with a hard object — is the best-known Kauai bell stone. It was once located on Kalaeokamanu Ridge, makai of and within walking distance of the Poliahu Heiau, but is now held by the Kauai Museum. Hawaiian priests of old would strike the Wailua Bell Stone to signal the Malae Heiau down by the mouth of the Wailua Riv…