| Anthropology - 1877 - 606 pages
...in with sheets of bark, &c., and at each cocoanut-shell cups are hung up for drinking. Houses. — The houses of the natives are built on the ground,...stout posts rising from the foci of the oval floor in each house, and by a regular framework of rafters, &c. Shorter posts, placed along the walls at... | |
| Anthropology - 1877 - 634 pages
...in with sheets of bark, &c., and at each cocoanut-shell cups are hung up for drinking. Houses. — The houses of the natives are built on the ground,...stout posts rising from the foci of the oval floor in each house, and by a regular framework of rafters, &c. Shorter posts, placed along the walls at... | |
| Anthropology - 1877 - 608 pages
...cocoamit-leaves or similar material. They thus look like long haycocks somewhat. In I )entrecasteaux Island many of the houses have their walls built up...stout posts rising from the foci of the oval floor in each house, and by a regular framework of rafters, &c. Shorter posts, placed along the walls at... | |
| George Laurence Gomme - Archaeology - 1890 - 562 pages
...thatch of grass and cocoanut leaves, or similar material. They thus look somewhat like long haycocks. In Dentrecasteaux Island many of the houses have their...each house, and by a regular framework of rafters, etc. Shorter posts placed along the wall at intervals support the roofs 1 Journ. Ethnological Soc.,... | |
| Henry Nottidge Moseley - Challenger Expedition - 1892 - 582 pages
...him, "several large villages built on piles over the water," on the east coast of the Main Island. Island. They are supported on two stout posts rising...each house, and by a regular framework of rafters, etc. Shorter posts, placed along the walls at intervals, support the roofs at their periphery and the... | |
| Henry Nottidge Moseley - Challenger Expedition - 1892 - 582 pages
...ground. On Wild Island they are built of a continuous wall and thatch of grass and cocoanut leaves or similar material. They thus look like long haycocks...in Europe. The roofs are similar to those in Wild * Jacobs, lc, p. 182, describes, as seen by him, "several large villages built on piles over the water,"... | |
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