. Bulletin. Ethnology. 20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 extra strength it may also be tied to the supporting post. The rafters (e), of a fairly even length, are now laid on the wall plate and sidepieces parallel with one another. They are looped to the wall plate with vine rope and kept in position by being again looped to a runner (/) parallel with the base stick and about 3 feet above it. This crosspiece is invariably looped under the sidepieces, but whether this is done for convenience of tying, I can not say. The leaves for the thatch (turu, pimpler palm, etc.) are generally colle
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 extra strength it may also be tied to the supporting post. The rafters (e), of a fairly even length, are now laid on the wall plate and sidepieces parallel with one another. They are looped to the wall plate with vine rope and kept in position by being again looped to a runner (/) parallel with the base stick and about 3 feet above it. This crosspiece is invariably looped under the sidepieces, but whether this is done for convenience of tying, I can not say. The leaves for the thatch (turu, pimpler palm, etc.) are generally collected in threes or fours, placed on top of one another, face down- ward, and tied together in two or three places with their own Figure 13.—Triangular banab (temporary shelter hut) of the Taruma, Atorai, and Waiwai. (Sec. 294) They are thus hauled out of the forest and carried (over the Indian's head, shoulder, and back) to where required, and then thrown up over the wall plate to the Indian standing on the apex ready to receive and place them in proper position lengthwise—i. e,, at right angles to the wall plate. To prevent them from shpping down again, their proximal ends are tied by their pinnules to the apex post. As the leaves referred to are from 16 to 18 feet long and upward, the thatch is soon completed. But when wild plantain leaves are em- ployed for thatch they are placed horizontally with the wall plate, and set up tilewise until the apex is reached. They are set face downward with tip and base on alternate sides. When one thickness. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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