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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY — PUBLICATION NO. 1 



CORNER 



RIDGE POLE 



CORNER 



CONSTRUCTION 

 DETAILS 



FiGiRE 7.— Details of roof construction, a. Vent in roof of kitchen; b, lean-to kitchen built against an adobe wall with ventilation 

 arrangement; r, two ways of finishing shakes at apex of an end roof section; d, arrangement of rafters in a small Cheran house; 

 e, joining of rafters and ridge pole viewed from outside roof frame; and (above) same seen from inside roof frame. 



