. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 119.—Guiana banabs, or temporary shelter frames, a, Simple, triangular form; h, rectangular form. (Redrawn from Roth, 1924, figs. 69, 68.) Small structures for the shelter of the hollow-log drinking trough are present in most villages. The basic type of permanent dwelling seems to be the single-family house, grouped into small settlements. The beehive type, round in ground plan, conical-roofed, and thatched down to the ground on a frame of saplings bent over and tied together at the top without interior support, may have been an early type, but now has nearly disa
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 119.—Guiana banabs, or temporary shelter frames, a, Simple, triangular form; h, rectangular form. (Redrawn from Roth, 1924, figs. 69, 68.) Small structures for the shelter of the hollow-log drinking trough are present in most villages. The basic type of permanent dwelling seems to be the single-family house, grouped into small settlements. The beehive type, round in ground plan, conical-roofed, and thatched down to the ground on a frame of saplings bent over and tied together at the top without interior support, may have been an early type, but now has nearly disappeared. The Rucuyen sleep in such structures as protection from mosquitoes. These huts have a single low entrance. More common is the rectangular house with pitched roof and supported horizontal ridge pole (fig. 120, a). Pos- sibly the older form of this type was provided with sapling rafters in- serted into the ground along the sides and bent over to the ridge pole at the top (fig. 120, c), providing basis both for thatched roof and 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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