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longitudinal axes coinciding with the median line of the 

 street. (10) 



The style of building of the houses and of the Duhus was 

 positively stated to have been also different, though this 

 information refers to the village of Mailu only.(ii) 



The difference in structure between the ordinary houses 

 in Mailu village and a Diihu was that the latter was built 

 in the Southern Massim style. That means that the ridge line 

 of its roof was markedly concave, instead of forming a straight 

 line sloping slightly downwards from front to rear. Again, 

 the arrangement of piles which form the foundation structure 

 is different in the case of the Mailu and in that of the Southern 

 Massim. The Mailu house is described below, but I am not able 

 to give a description of the Southern Massim style of building. 

 The excellent picture of a Southern Massim house, given by 

 Prof. Seligman (oj). cit., pi. liii.), Avill, however, be sufficient 

 to show the difference referred to. 



The tree houses, or tree platforms, described later (chap, 

 iii., sec. 6) formed also another class of village buildings. 

 These were only possible on the mainland, because there 

 only existed trees high and strong enough for their support. 



As temporary erections may be mentioned the ceremonial 

 platforms made during the feast for the killing and dis- 

 tribution of pigs and for the Govi dance (comp. chap, v., 

 sec. 3) ; the small huts and shelters usually erected near the 

 houses, on the beach, where people go to sleep during the 

 stifling hot nights at the end of the dry season ; and similar 

 structures in the gardens and on distant points of the sea 

 beach, which were used when gardening or fishing (such a 

 shelter may be seen on pi. xxviii., fig. 2). 



Sometimes the large canoes are used as houses. The 

 platform is covered with a roofing of Nipa palm mats, and 

 the shelter thus obtained is used as a dwelling-room. It is 

 always so used whenever people go on distant and protracted 

 visits (see pi. xxviii., fig. 1). 



The sanitary arrangements near the villages are well 

 regulated by custom, and carefully observed by both sexes. 

 In the villages on the shore both sea and land are used for 

 these purposes. In daytime, when people are not afraid 

 to go a few hundred yards from the village, people utilize 



(10) Comp. the plan of the Mailu village on page 512. 



(11) The only Duhu. which is built in the characteristic posi- 

 tion in the middle of the street, is that in Boreho, figured on 

 pi. xxix., fig. 2. This Duhu is built exactly in the same style 

 as all the other houses, and I was told in Borebo that in the 

 olden days the Duhus and houses were all built alike. 

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