. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. l/oKscs in Fiji. 21 had a pretty effect. There are two tlcH)r\va}\s, one 011 eacli side: these are m\\y about tlii^ee feet in hcigh,t, and are clost'd hx hanging mats. * '" ' " ' " On one side of the house, as is tisual aiiioiig" the h'eejeeans, the cooking' phiee is exca\'ated, a f(»ot ikttp ami about eight feet scpiare ; this was fiirnishetl with three hirgc earthen piits of native nnitmfacttire. Of a mburc (sacred or iiieiiiorial lioiisc) tliej- sa}-: Tl
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. l/oKscs in Fiji. 21 had a pretty effect. There are two tlcH)r\va}\s, one 011 eacli side: these are m\\y about tlii^ee feet in hcigh,t, and are clost'd hx hanging mats. * '" ' " ' " On one side of the house, as is tisual aiiioiig" the h'eejeeans, the cooking' phiee is exca\'ated, a f(»ot ikttp ami about eight feet scpiare ; this was fiirnishetl with three hirgc earthen piits of native nnitmfacttire. Of a mburc (sacred or iiieiiiorial lioiisc) tliej- sa}-: Tlie mound on which it is l,)uiU is an arlitieial one, ten feci higli : 'Hie ndntre is al)Out tweh'e feet square, and its sides or walls only fonr feet high ; while its higli pitched ro(,)( rises to the height r" Sy"' ...J. oi: a1x)iit thirty feet. The walls and roof of the nibure are cunstructi:ci ol canes abmil the size of a finger, ant! each one is wound rouinl with st-nnil as tliick a-^ a cod line, made trx>ni the cociiaouit linsk. At a little distance, the whole lujiise looked as lliough it was built In'aiikid con!. Again, on page 343, this general tlcscriiiliini given: Ihey arc of similar tern . llun- liavc two doorways, the posts arc set in tlic ground Their honses differ from those of the other groups, annun^ materials. The frame and sills are maile oi the eoc(»aoint and tn on opposite si<les, from three to fonr Jcct high, and four feet witli and are placed about three feet apart ; the rafters ef the palm tree are set npor. a plate rcslmg on the post ; these have a verv steel) Pil'-'l'^ =",<! support a log. tliat hnaus the peak of the root: the ends of the peak extend the thatching at each cud, and arc wili. shells iOvulum - ^ thic^kcst at the caves. 1%) make llie roof tliey Ih/aUU at the I 205 I ot'um). The Ihatcliiog i-s peculiar Ijeing i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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