The Kellum's
MEDFORD ROSS KELLUM & ELIZABETH LAUDERMedford Senior was considered as a man of wealth, most of his fortune coming from sound investment in Florida real estate. His wife, Elizabeth Lauder (D.1930), will become one of the richest young women in the United States, whose huge fortune originated in the steel works. In 1924, the couple outfitted the Kaimiloa, a four masted barkantine for a five-year scientific expedition to many of the then inaccessible spots of the Pacific. Under the auspices of the Bishop Museum, a group of Hawaiian scientists joined the ship: Gerrit P. Wilder, botanist; Mrs. Wilder, historian; Kenneth Emory, ethnologist; Dr. Armstrong Sperry, writer and illustrator; and Dr. Stanley Ball.
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Kaimiloa
The Luzon was commissioned with and official number of 141642 and a signal number of KPTV. Built in 1900 by Hay & Wright in Alameda Ca. for M. Sanders, 545 tons with a length of 170.0 Ft, a beam of 36.8 Ft., and a draft of 12.2 Ft fully loaded, she was a four masted wood hulled schooner with 1 deck, captained by J.G. Park. Her home port was San Francisco Ca.For more than 20 years she plied the Pacific as a common carrier, carrying lumber and copra out of the South Seas for many years, so the mystical isles were not unfamiliar when she sallied forth on her research-cruise through the mystical isles below the equator.In November 1923, she was sold to M.R. Kellum from it's mooring in Sausalito California and the change from lumber schooner to yacht was done by Lewis Madden & Co. at Sausalito during 1923 & early 1924.In 1924, the Luzon was renamed, historically, Kaimiloa, in Hawaiian meaning “to search afar”. She was entirely refurbished and provided with equipment necessary to transform her from a roughneck agent of commerce to a comfortable vessel able to stay away from port a half year or more at a time.Under the scientific expertise of the Bishop Museum of Hawaii, the goal was to make the most exhaustive South Seas study of geology, anthropology, botany and ethnology of the time. The crew consisted of a captain, mate, chief engineer, assistant engineer, radio operator, doctor, boatswain, carpenter, cook and assistant, three Japanese stewards, one laundry man, two tutors, one of which acted as photographer, the other as purser.
EQUIPEMENTA new set of sails (four head sails had gaff rig sails on the fore, main, mizzen masts with a leg of mutton sail on the spanker, or after mast. The three forward masts carried gaff topsails; also on the foremast, a large square sail). With a good breeze she sailed at an average of 8 knots with sails alone.One 1,500 gallon tanks for oilOne 1,500 gallon tanks for waterA 110 horse power diesel Westinghouse engine, to be used be used for auxiliary purposes, and to provide a speed of 6½ knots.Four sources of power were available and if any three should breakdown: a 40 h.p. Atlas Imperial Diesel to take charge of electric lights operating a 25 kW dynamo. For auxiliary electric light power, the yacht has one 10 kW dynamo belted to the flywheel of the port engine and one 12½ kW generator belted to the starboard engine. All three dynamos lead to the switchboard and any one can run any outfit aboard the boat and anyone or all can be used at the same time. Any one or all can supply electricity to the storage batteries, giving sufficient power to run every electrical contrivance on board for a period of eight hours with a dynamo at work.An automatic refrigeration plant that enabled the boat to carry enough meat for 30 persons 90 days, and a plant that could make 200 pounds of ice every 24 hours.
RADIO AND SAFETY EQUIPMENTA complete radio plant which is run by Fred Roebuck, will keep the members of the expedition in touch with the civilized world at al times.The first short-wave transmitter ever installed aboard a ship (Heintz & Kaufman, ltd.)The latest life saving devicesThe laboratory for the use of the scientist is 50 feet long running the full width of the boat in the hold from just of the hatch to her bow, with 8 feet of head room. There are hatches underneath the laboratory floor for all kinds of store with a large supply of bottles and containers in which the scientist preserved fish and specimens of marine life for the Bishop Museum.
LAYOUTThe dinning-saloon, 20 by 28 feet, is placed at about the centre of the vessel and is fitted with four tables with six seats to a table.Running aft from the dinning-saloon is a long passageway leading to the companionway which goes to the deck.On the port side of the passage are four staterooms and two bathrooms; a first class pantry,On the starboard side there are two staterooms and the owners stateroom, another room and two bathrooms.Forward of the dinning-saloon is a companionway leading to the hatch and on the port side of that there is a pantry, a galley, officers mess-room, cook and steward’s rooms, laundry and crew’s mess, also lavatories, lockers and shower baths.On the starboard side is the captains stateroom. There are also lockers, lavatories, a shower bath a mates room, radio room, the crew’s quarters, crew’s lavatories and engine house.
COMFORTAll rooms and quarters were commodious with up-to-date plumbing and electric lights and fans installed in each stateroom.A darkroom, completely furnished and provisions have been made for the taking of moving pictures.A motion picture machineA daily newspaper will be published on board.“The big yacht, 700 tons, was luxury itself. There was nothing fancy about her, but plain, solid comfort; large cabins, with bath rooms attached, and plenty of clothes-closets, etc. a deck house had been built on the main deck, from the poop to just abaft the foremast, on which everybody lived. The top of this house formed a magnificient promenade deck, nearly the whole length of the ship. Her original rig of fore and aft schooner was left standing, but twin Diesel engines had been installed, having sufficient power to give about 6 ½ knots. She also had an electric plant and a very efficient freezing plant. We revelled in such treats as thick cream, and prime beef, which are unknown here.” « South Sea Settlers » 1927, JR and BB Grey
The Kaimiloa was sold in 1937 to a foreign country, to fly the flag of the Chinese.
EQUIPEMENTA new set of sails (four head sails had gaff rig sails on the fore, main, mizzen masts with a leg of mutton sail on the spanker, or after mast. The three forward masts carried gaff topsails; also on the foremast, a large square sail). With a good breeze she sailed at an average of 8 knots with sails alone.One 1,500 gallon tanks for oilOne 1,500 gallon tanks for waterA 110 horse power diesel Westinghouse engine, to be used be used for auxiliary purposes, and to provide a speed of 6½ knots.Four sources of power were available and if any three should breakdown: a 40 h.p. Atlas Imperial Diesel to take charge of electric lights operating a 25 kW dynamo. For auxiliary electric light power, the yacht has one 10 kW dynamo belted to the flywheel of the port engine and one 12½ kW generator belted to the starboard engine. All three dynamos lead to the switchboard and any one can run any outfit aboard the boat and anyone or all can be used at the same time. Any one or all can supply electricity to the storage batteries, giving sufficient power to run every electrical contrivance on board for a period of eight hours with a dynamo at work.An automatic refrigeration plant that enabled the boat to carry enough meat for 30 persons 90 days, and a plant that could make 200 pounds of ice every 24 hours.
RADIO AND SAFETY EQUIPMENTA complete radio plant which is run by Fred Roebuck, will keep the members of the expedition in touch with the civilized world at al times.The first short-wave transmitter ever installed aboard a ship (Heintz & Kaufman, ltd.)The latest life saving devicesThe laboratory for the use of the scientist is 50 feet long running the full width of the boat in the hold from just of the hatch to her bow, with 8 feet of head room. There are hatches underneath the laboratory floor for all kinds of store with a large supply of bottles and containers in which the scientist preserved fish and specimens of marine life for the Bishop Museum.
LAYOUTThe dinning-saloon, 20 by 28 feet, is placed at about the centre of the vessel and is fitted with four tables with six seats to a table.Running aft from the dinning-saloon is a long passageway leading to the companionway which goes to the deck.On the port side of the passage are four staterooms and two bathrooms; a first class pantry,On the starboard side there are two staterooms and the owners stateroom, another room and two bathrooms.Forward of the dinning-saloon is a companionway leading to the hatch and on the port side of that there is a pantry, a galley, officers mess-room, cook and steward’s rooms, laundry and crew’s mess, also lavatories, lockers and shower baths.On the starboard side is the captains stateroom. There are also lockers, lavatories, a shower bath a mates room, radio room, the crew’s quarters, crew’s lavatories and engine house.
COMFORTAll rooms and quarters were commodious with up-to-date plumbing and electric lights and fans installed in each stateroom.A darkroom, completely furnished and provisions have been made for the taking of moving pictures.A motion picture machineA daily newspaper will be published on board.“The big yacht, 700 tons, was luxury itself. There was nothing fancy about her, but plain, solid comfort; large cabins, with bath rooms attached, and plenty of clothes-closets, etc. a deck house had been built on the main deck, from the poop to just abaft the foremast, on which everybody lived. The top of this house formed a magnificient promenade deck, nearly the whole length of the ship. Her original rig of fore and aft schooner was left standing, but twin Diesel engines had been installed, having sufficient power to give about 6 ½ knots. She also had an electric plant and a very efficient freezing plant. We revelled in such treats as thick cream, and prime beef, which are unknown here.” « South Sea Settlers » 1927, JR and BB Grey
The Kaimiloa was sold in 1937 to a foreign country, to fly the flag of the Chinese.
THE EXPEDITION
In 1924, Medford KELLUM outfitted the barkantine 4 mast schooner for a scientific expedition which, even the naming of the ship, was left entirely to the scientific circles of Honolulu.“The Trustees and staff of the Museum are fairly bubbling with pleasure at finding that their dream of an exploring ship, reaching places otherwise inaccessible, has become a reality through interest of yourself and Mrs. Kellum. (…) It takes some talking to convince the trustees that you want your name submerged and that you don’t care a whoop what the ship does or where it goes so long as you two friendly souls can render service by increasing knowledge of the Pacific.” Director Gregory, Honolulu Museum, May 31, 1924.
Newspaper articles
ADVENTURERS TO SEEK “LOST CONTINENT IN SOUTH SEAS’THE BULLETIN, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924
I’ve never traveled for more’n a day,I never was one to roam,But I likes to sit on the busy quay,Watchin’ the ships that says to me -Always somebody goin’ away,Somebody gettin’ home.-------Bell
BY HERB WESTON
Sunset-bound for the South Seas to trace the “lost continent” of the Pacific, that legendary land chanted of in song and story for centuries around the native campfires of Polynesia, where ancient priests tell marvelous tales of the mountains that disappeared into the sea; the adventured-scarred old schooner Luzon, veteran of the tropic trade paths, will sail out of the Golden Gate Wednesday on a three-year scientific cruise.
HIS DREAMIt is the dream of M. R. Kellum, retired Florida millionaire, now in San Francisco. He is financing the expedition, and accompanying him will be his family and a group scientist from the Bishop Museum Foundation in Honolulu, authorities on South Sea life, the flora and fauna, the geological formations, oceanography zoology, and biology.They will dig back of the strange tales, handed down from generation to generation that the tribal troubadours tell of the “ Noah-Noah land,” of the great chiefs that ruled them long before the western world began to record history.
NAME CHANGEDEven the name of the old four-master has been changed, from the Luzon to the Kaimiloa, which in Hawaiian, means “the far search.”And a strangely transformed schooner she now is. For the past two months she has been at the Atlas wharf in the Oakland estuary being fitted with two 110-horsepower Diesel engines, with palatial staterooms, with scientific laboratories, and tons of equipment , with motion picture machines and with two machine guns and one small canon, between 30 and 35 rifles and shotguns and sidearms for every man, woman and child aboard. Adventure? They will just follow the sunset--to meet what comes.
CONCEIVED YEARS AGOThe trip was conceived several years ago by Kellum who moved from Florida to Honolulu. Originally it was intended for a pleasure cruise among the South Sea Islands. Savants at the Bishop Museum learned of it and asked permission to send one man along. The idea grew until now six experts, running the gamut of scientific subjects, will be picked up at Honolulu for the expedition.Nothing has been overlooked. There will be two tutors--Joseph Shaw and L. B. Steck of the University of California, majors of chemistry, physics, and mathematics--to care for the education of Kellum’s sons and daughters on the trip. And he is taking all of them. CARNEGIE NIECEHis wife, a niece of Andrew Carnegie, will accompany him. Then there are “Jim Kellum, 12, who thinks he “ought to have some fun,” and Pink, 3, and Miss Ida Kellum, 23, and Med Jr., 22, who looks upon it as a greatest adventure of my life.” Mr. and Mrs. Dale Miller, friends of the Kellums; Dr. C. E. Wells, ship’s physician, and a crew of eight under Captain A. E. Carter, veteran mariner of the Pacific will complete the party.Like true adventurers, they leave for no particular point. “ We don’t know where we are going,” Kellum said today. “But we will be gone three years. There are provisions aboard now to last for one year.We are carrying 18,000 gallons of fuel oil and the same quantity of water.The arsenal is calculated to take care of any militaristic emergency.The scientist will dig deep into the plant and animal life of the islands. They are going back thousands of years --seeking the most primitive tribes. From these they will attempt to trace the origin of the Polynesians, their language and their tribal migrations. They will sound the floor of the ocean and study the formation of the islands in an effort to prove a theory that these islands were once a part of the mainland: that they formed a “lost continent.” They are prepared to sit around the fire and listen to the ancient legends of the tribal chiefs of the great civilization that existed thousands— maybe million—of years ago; of the cities and the people.
LAUGH AT DANGERThey laugh at danger and death--these people. They are tired of the cities, and they seek just over the horizon, that which stirs human emotions.John Joy Bell expressed it when he concluded:An’ I love the ships more every dayThough I never was one to roamOh! The ships confortin’ sights to seeAn’ they means a lot when they says to me“Always somebody goin away,Somebody gettin’ home.”
I’ve never traveled for more’n a day,I never was one to roam,But I likes to sit on the busy quay,Watchin’ the ships that says to me -Always somebody goin’ away,Somebody gettin’ home.-------Bell
BY HERB WESTON
Sunset-bound for the South Seas to trace the “lost continent” of the Pacific, that legendary land chanted of in song and story for centuries around the native campfires of Polynesia, where ancient priests tell marvelous tales of the mountains that disappeared into the sea; the adventured-scarred old schooner Luzon, veteran of the tropic trade paths, will sail out of the Golden Gate Wednesday on a three-year scientific cruise.
HIS DREAMIt is the dream of M. R. Kellum, retired Florida millionaire, now in San Francisco. He is financing the expedition, and accompanying him will be his family and a group scientist from the Bishop Museum Foundation in Honolulu, authorities on South Sea life, the flora and fauna, the geological formations, oceanography zoology, and biology.They will dig back of the strange tales, handed down from generation to generation that the tribal troubadours tell of the “ Noah-Noah land,” of the great chiefs that ruled them long before the western world began to record history.
NAME CHANGEDEven the name of the old four-master has been changed, from the Luzon to the Kaimiloa, which in Hawaiian, means “the far search.”And a strangely transformed schooner she now is. For the past two months she has been at the Atlas wharf in the Oakland estuary being fitted with two 110-horsepower Diesel engines, with palatial staterooms, with scientific laboratories, and tons of equipment , with motion picture machines and with two machine guns and one small canon, between 30 and 35 rifles and shotguns and sidearms for every man, woman and child aboard. Adventure? They will just follow the sunset--to meet what comes.
CONCEIVED YEARS AGOThe trip was conceived several years ago by Kellum who moved from Florida to Honolulu. Originally it was intended for a pleasure cruise among the South Sea Islands. Savants at the Bishop Museum learned of it and asked permission to send one man along. The idea grew until now six experts, running the gamut of scientific subjects, will be picked up at Honolulu for the expedition.Nothing has been overlooked. There will be two tutors--Joseph Shaw and L. B. Steck of the University of California, majors of chemistry, physics, and mathematics--to care for the education of Kellum’s sons and daughters on the trip. And he is taking all of them. CARNEGIE NIECEHis wife, a niece of Andrew Carnegie, will accompany him. Then there are “Jim Kellum, 12, who thinks he “ought to have some fun,” and Pink, 3, and Miss Ida Kellum, 23, and Med Jr., 22, who looks upon it as a greatest adventure of my life.” Mr. and Mrs. Dale Miller, friends of the Kellums; Dr. C. E. Wells, ship’s physician, and a crew of eight under Captain A. E. Carter, veteran mariner of the Pacific will complete the party.Like true adventurers, they leave for no particular point. “ We don’t know where we are going,” Kellum said today. “But we will be gone three years. There are provisions aboard now to last for one year.We are carrying 18,000 gallons of fuel oil and the same quantity of water.The arsenal is calculated to take care of any militaristic emergency.The scientist will dig deep into the plant and animal life of the islands. They are going back thousands of years --seeking the most primitive tribes. From these they will attempt to trace the origin of the Polynesians, their language and their tribal migrations. They will sound the floor of the ocean and study the formation of the islands in an effort to prove a theory that these islands were once a part of the mainland: that they formed a “lost continent.” They are prepared to sit around the fire and listen to the ancient legends of the tribal chiefs of the great civilization that existed thousands— maybe million—of years ago; of the cities and the people.
LAUGH AT DANGERThey laugh at danger and death--these people. They are tired of the cities, and they seek just over the horizon, that which stirs human emotions.John Joy Bell expressed it when he concluded:An’ I love the ships more every dayThough I never was one to roamOh! The ships confortin’ sights to seeAn’ they means a lot when they says to me“Always somebody goin away,Somebody gettin’ home.”
ANCIENT CARVING, WITH DEATH TABU, FOUND IN TAHITI POLYNESIAN ‘MILK STONE,’ FULL OF MAGIC FIGURES, TOLD OF BY SCIENTIST STRANGE TALE SENT TO BISHOP MUSEUM BY EMORY, WHO INVESTIGATES IN SOUTHHONOLULU STAR BULLETIN SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925
A strange tale of an ancient carved stone which it was believed by Polynesians, has the power to cause milk to flow along its groves, to kill the man who touched it, has been sent to the Bishop Museum from the island of Tahiti in the Society group by Kenneth P. Emory, A.M., ethnologist of that institution, who left Honolulu on the schooner-yacht Kaimiloa some months ago and who is now making special investigations in the South Seas. Located in a brook bed a few kilometers from the town of Papeete, the bolder bears the first petroglyph to be reported from Tahiti, and so well has it been concealed that only within the year has it been brought to the attention of the French Societe d’ Etudes Oceaniennes, whose president, M.E. Ahnne, kindly conducted Emory to the spot in January of this year. The young scientist also discovered two similarly carved smaller stones nearby. ELABORATELY CARVED “The stone presents a flat, smooth, water-worn surface, six feet long and four feet wide which is entirely filled by the conspicuous carving,” Emory writes. “During heavy rains, the brook floods the rock but as yet the groves of this carving have been only slightly obliterated, except for the linear figure or figures on the east or the most exposed side. As the groves of the large elaborate central figure are everywhere of even depth , the smooth surface of the bolder is not the result of water erosion, since the carving, but before it was made at a time when the brook had not cut down to its present level, but had flowed over the rock. “The brook has since found a lower level and in doing so has undermined the bolder and caused it to tilt. There are o marks of steel tools on the rock and it is safe to conclude from this as well as from the aged appearance of the groves that they are, at the very least 100 years old. “Yet it hardly seems that they can be more than a few centuries old, else the many torrents of the brook should have caused more damage.A small brook with a steep pitch such as this one, is geologicallyspeaking, a young and swiftly changing thing, so no great antiquity can be argued since the bolder laid in the stream bed and received the polished surface which was to be engraved. “I am sure that we may safely conclude that the bolder has at all times lain in a position determined by nature and that a century or so ago it was level and probably flush with the waters of the brook, when the brook was well filled, and that about the time it was carved.”
BACK AND FRONT VIEWS After a study of the pictured rock carving one realizes that chief difficulty or the artists of that day seems to have encountered in depicting both the back and the front of a figure in the same outline! “Although most of the carved lines seem well defined,” Emory continues, “It is not so clear what the carvings represent. That they are conventionalized human figures, falling at once into general accord with Hawaiian and Maquesan petroglyphs and executed in the style of the latter, there can be little doubt, I think, to one who examines the data on record at the Bishop Museum. “Directly over the double-headed figure is a small human figure, arms encircled over the head, head outlined with the face represented by a single circular depression The body is outlined and the leg on the right is jointed at right angles. The other line is seen to be a part of a sinuous line which commences from the top of the head and makes a wide bend to the left. An eel is represented this way on the Moanalua petroglyph rock , Oahu, a cast of which is in the museum. By one conception this sinuous line on the Tipaerui rock represents an eel or snake, the head of which may be easily seen mouth down and touching the left head of the double headed figure. “At first sight the large central figure appears to consist of two human figures back to back. In Hawaii and in the Marquesas, the human figure carved in outline is always represented face on, not in profile, and I see no reason to believe that this figure is an exception. One might expect that the faces might also be shown in profile, but this is not necessary in the Polynesian representation of the human form. Among Hawaiian petroglyphs the body, represented full on, is often shown in this way. “One of the two other petroglyph rocks at Tipaerui shows a single human figure with arms and legs outlined and the sides of the body doubly outlined. The human form was then represented in this way. I therefore believe we must assign the extra head as representing the back of the center head. The artist, I think, was at a loss how else to represent a double figure.” “The rock was carved in memory of Tetaurii vahine and her twin children,” legend says. Bruillard, whose sister owns the property on which the petroglyph is situated is responsible for the story. “Tetaurii, defeated \, took refuge in Tipaerui valley. His wife there gave birth to twins and soon after all three died. They were buried on the land of Oteoteroa close to the brook.
A strange tale of an ancient carved stone which it was believed by Polynesians, has the power to cause milk to flow along its groves, to kill the man who touched it, has been sent to the Bishop Museum from the island of Tahiti in the Society group by Kenneth P. Emory, A.M., ethnologist of that institution, who left Honolulu on the schooner-yacht Kaimiloa some months ago and who is now making special investigations in the South Seas. Located in a brook bed a few kilometers from the town of Papeete, the bolder bears the first petroglyph to be reported from Tahiti, and so well has it been concealed that only within the year has it been brought to the attention of the French Societe d’ Etudes Oceaniennes, whose president, M.E. Ahnne, kindly conducted Emory to the spot in January of this year. The young scientist also discovered two similarly carved smaller stones nearby. ELABORATELY CARVED “The stone presents a flat, smooth, water-worn surface, six feet long and four feet wide which is entirely filled by the conspicuous carving,” Emory writes. “During heavy rains, the brook floods the rock but as yet the groves of this carving have been only slightly obliterated, except for the linear figure or figures on the east or the most exposed side. As the groves of the large elaborate central figure are everywhere of even depth , the smooth surface of the bolder is not the result of water erosion, since the carving, but before it was made at a time when the brook had not cut down to its present level, but had flowed over the rock. “The brook has since found a lower level and in doing so has undermined the bolder and caused it to tilt. There are o marks of steel tools on the rock and it is safe to conclude from this as well as from the aged appearance of the groves that they are, at the very least 100 years old. “Yet it hardly seems that they can be more than a few centuries old, else the many torrents of the brook should have caused more damage.A small brook with a steep pitch such as this one, is geologicallyspeaking, a young and swiftly changing thing, so no great antiquity can be argued since the bolder laid in the stream bed and received the polished surface which was to be engraved. “I am sure that we may safely conclude that the bolder has at all times lain in a position determined by nature and that a century or so ago it was level and probably flush with the waters of the brook, when the brook was well filled, and that about the time it was carved.”
BACK AND FRONT VIEWS After a study of the pictured rock carving one realizes that chief difficulty or the artists of that day seems to have encountered in depicting both the back and the front of a figure in the same outline! “Although most of the carved lines seem well defined,” Emory continues, “It is not so clear what the carvings represent. That they are conventionalized human figures, falling at once into general accord with Hawaiian and Maquesan petroglyphs and executed in the style of the latter, there can be little doubt, I think, to one who examines the data on record at the Bishop Museum. “Directly over the double-headed figure is a small human figure, arms encircled over the head, head outlined with the face represented by a single circular depression The body is outlined and the leg on the right is jointed at right angles. The other line is seen to be a part of a sinuous line which commences from the top of the head and makes a wide bend to the left. An eel is represented this way on the Moanalua petroglyph rock , Oahu, a cast of which is in the museum. By one conception this sinuous line on the Tipaerui rock represents an eel or snake, the head of which may be easily seen mouth down and touching the left head of the double headed figure. “At first sight the large central figure appears to consist of two human figures back to back. In Hawaii and in the Marquesas, the human figure carved in outline is always represented face on, not in profile, and I see no reason to believe that this figure is an exception. One might expect that the faces might also be shown in profile, but this is not necessary in the Polynesian representation of the human form. Among Hawaiian petroglyphs the body, represented full on, is often shown in this way. “One of the two other petroglyph rocks at Tipaerui shows a single human figure with arms and legs outlined and the sides of the body doubly outlined. The human form was then represented in this way. I therefore believe we must assign the extra head as representing the back of the center head. The artist, I think, was at a loss how else to represent a double figure.” “The rock was carved in memory of Tetaurii vahine and her twin children,” legend says. Bruillard, whose sister owns the property on which the petroglyph is situated is responsible for the story. “Tetaurii, defeated \, took refuge in Tipaerui valley. His wife there gave birth to twins and soon after all three died. They were buried on the land of Oteoteroa close to the brook.