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DYAK VILLAGE HOUSE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION 
This picture shows the arrangement of pillars and rafters of a Dyak house. 
The floor 
nearest the earth is divided into the long, open veranda and the rooms in which the different 
families live. 
Above this is the loft, where the paddy is stored away. 
Part of the roof in 
the picture has been covered with palm-leaf thatch. 
DRYING PADDY 
Before it is possible to rid the paddy of its 
husk and convert it into rice, it has to be 
dried in the sun. Here a woman is seen 
spreading out the paddy on a mat with her 
hands. She is on the outside veranda of the 
Dyak house (tanju). The long pole over her 
head is used by her to drive away the fowls 
and birds who may come to eat the paddy put 
out to dry. Photos from “Seventeen Years 
Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo,” by Edwin 
H. Gomes. J. B. Lippincott Co. 
A HUSKING MILL (KISAR) 
After the paddy is dried and before it is 
pounded, it is generally passed through a 
husking mill made in two parts—the lower 
half having a stem in the middle which fits 
into the upper part, which is hollow. The 
paddy is put into a cavity in the upper half, 
and a man or woman seizes the handles and 
works the upper half to the right and left 
alternately. The paddy drips through on to the 
mat on which this husking mill is placed. 
