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of which one looks in fig. 74. Entering along the steps and across the front verandah, one 

 finds along the right hand wall, divided by pièces of bark up to man's height, a few separate 

 rooms for married people and young children and also the family fire places. Along the 

 whole length of the left hand wall, raised sleeping places for men and boys are sometimes to 

 be found, below which a fire is kept burning during the night for warmth and against the 

 mosquitoes. The weapons are also suspended on this side, close to the opening of the doors the 

 bodies of deceased relatives, dried over the fire and packed in a squatting position in matting, 

 are hanging and in the roof the lower jaws of pigs are stuck. This division corresponds with 

 the plan of a building given by Van Oosterzee [1904, 1006] of the Ménam, living somewhat 

 more to the north; only hère the rooms are formed in the corners of the house, both to the 

 right and to the left [1. c, 1007]. On the slopes of.the Arfak Mountains, according to D' Al- 

 BERTIS, the women's quarters are to the left, the men's sleeping places to the right. 



At Demta (fig. yy) the entrance of the hill dwellings is also situated at the upper side 

 of the slope. 



Another type of dwelling, common in Geelvink Bay, is the one with the so-called 

 t urtle -shape d roof, its shape corresponding with the dorsal shield of a turtle, or a boat 

 bottom upwards (WALLACE [1869, II, 184]). Fig. 81 of Siarf may serve as a type, but it is 

 in a somewhat delapidated condition. The dwelling stands with the direction of its length 

 perpendicularly with the coast line, in sufficiently deep water, at ail events I could not reach 

 it wading. Therefore it is only necessary to remove a single stem from the long bridge, 

 consisting of small stems placed on forked piles, which connects the dwelling with the shore, 

 in order to make the approach of people on foot impossible. The figure also shows the 

 Windows of the apartments which hâve been made along both the longitudinal walls, leaving 

 a middle passage, in which the long boats can be placed. The house has at both ends a covered 

 platform without side walls ; the women assemble on the one turned towards the shore (Van 

 HASSELT [1886, 580]), whilst the platform turned towards the sea is intended for the men. The 



latter platform is there- 

 fore often very large 

 and provided with a 

 long projecting roof, as 

 struck me particularly at 

 Jendé (fig. 75), showing 

 some resemblance to the 

 houses of Maiwa, Chal- 

 MERS [1885, 162] des- 

 cribes, "built to repre- 

 sent an alligator, with 

 open mouth, the plat- 

 form in front of the 

 houses is the lower jaw 



and the long shade over the platform the upper." The platform for the women is small and little 



or not at ail shaded, the roof often being transversely eut off, as appears in fig. 78 of Wendèsi. 



The transverse wall is, on this side, made of horizontal laths, and provided with a 



Fig- 75- Houses at Jendé; Geelvink Bay. 



