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twelve inches wide. Its floor is covered with boards about four feet long 
by eight to fourteen inches wide, each board serving as a bed for one of 
the girls. In some dtos the dlag is lacking, in which case the girls go 
to the dlag of some other dto to sleep; or there may be two olags, if the 
number of girls and unmarried women is large. > 
The typical Bontoc family dwelling house is the place where a man, 
his wife, and his children less than two years of age sleep and where the 
entire family eats. In the rancheria of Bontoc it is practically always 
constructed on a fixed plan. (PI. XXXIII, fig. 1.) The walls are 
about three and a half feet high; the front wall is open in the middle; 
the front and side walls are built of boards, but the rear one is of stone, 
chinked with clay. There is a post six or seven feet high at each of 
the four corners of the building; the boards of the side walls are tied to 
these posts, which also support the greater part of the weight of the roof. 
There is no floor on the first story. On the left, as one enters, is a small 
room partially marked off by stones sunk in the earth. In this room 
rice is hulled, millet is threshed, and food is prepared for cooking. 
Next to this room on the left comes one in which the food is cooked. 
Down the center of the house extends a passageway and to the right as 
one enters there is a shelf or bench on which are placed various household 
articles. 
At the rear is a sleeping box, extending from one side of the house to 
the other, so that the side walls make its ends and the back wall forms 
its back side. It has a front side and a top of wood, and is entered by 
means of a small door. This box is sometimes lined on the inside with 
stone, except at the point where the door gives entrance to it. It con- 
tains sleeping boards for the husband and wife, and in one end of it a 
fire is built for warmth. Many of the Bontoc Jgorots suffer from serious 
eye trouble, which doubtless has its origin in the constant irritation 
caused by the smoke in their sleeping boxes. 
The roof of the house extends nearly, but not quite, down to the level 
of the sides and projects beyond them for some distance. In its peak 
there are ordinarily two rooms, one above the other. Entrance is had 
to the lower by means of a door and short ladder. It is used as a store- 
room. The second room must be entered from the first. It is sometimes 
used as a storeroom and sometimes stands empty. The roof of the house 
is well thatched with grass. Under the eaves, firewood is stored. 
Dwelling houses of very different types may be found in many of the 
other rancherias of the Bontoe Igorots, and even in the settlement of 
Bontoce itself, those inhabited by widows are sometimes mere huts. 
The fish of the Bontoc streams are few in number and are usually 
small in size, but the people manage to secure a considerable supply of 
them either by catching them with their hands under stones in the streams 
or by chasing them into wickerwork baskets or traps. (PI. L, fig. 1.) 
