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in the MacCluer Gulf (MOOLEXBURGH [1903, 9]). Also at Angâdi (fig. 80) and Nagramâdu 

 (fig. 57), but hère in a smaller measure, vertical as well as crosswise pôles having been placed 

 under the houses. Ail this certainly for the sake of more firmness and in connection with 

 the nature of the soil; still I remember that the inhabitants of Mapâr desired that their house 

 should shake with festive dances, and rhust not by any means prove unmovable. The dwel- 

 ling stands, in reality, just below the highest point, where the slope begins, and has, at 

 the side turned towards the top of the hill, where the pôles are shortest, a small bridge of 

 some thin stems placed alongside each other, sometimes with cross pièces. of wood, fastened 

 on to them as steps, at other times of a single, oblique placed stem of a tree, provided 

 with steps, oii, eut out of the wood (see fig. 73, also fig. 57). Hère, therefore, the entrance 

 to the dwelling is the same as indicated by Van DER GOES [1858, 165, PL S S] of the 

 Arfak dwellings. Ail Mànfkion dwellings hâve a square fioor made from laths, irgam liiri, 

 of small stems of palms resembling Nibung, and which is generally continued in front and 

 at the back to form a verandah, which, at Mapâr, was about 1 m. broad, and on which ail 

 the inhabitants had taken their places to be photographed (fig. 73). At Hiri the verandah was 

 only présent in the shape of a cross-beam (fig. 72). The statement of Van DER GoES [1858, 

 165], relating to the Arfak people, that the other verandah always looked out on the paths 



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Fig. 72. Dwelling Hiri: tribe of the Mam'kion. 



leading to the house, may, I fancy, be confirmed also as regards the Manikion. The roof of 

 un-plaited palm leaves, has a lineal ridge, from which it déclines to the left and to the right, the 

 sidewalls being very low, but the front and back wall, slightly overlapped by the roof, reaching 

 to the ridge pôle. The walls are made from bark, 3 — 5 m. m. thick, pealed off from young 

 trees and flattened when fresh; this bark is supported by branches and laths. The use 

 of this material in the building of houses is characteristic also of the people of Ajambori 



