. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. MATERIAL CONDITIONS 55 split bamboo covered with coarse mats. An openplatform at the level of the floor runs along thewhole length of the open side of the are no padi barns about the house, the padibeing kept in bins in the roofs. The roof itself islow, giving little head space. The gallery of thehouse makes an impression of lack of space, verydifferent to that made by the long wide gallery ofa Kayan or Kenyah house. Although the more soli
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. MATERIAL CONDITIONS 55 split bamboo covered with coarse mats. An openplatform at the level of the floor runs along thewhole length of the open side of the are no padi barns about the house, the padibeing kept in bins in the roofs. The roof itself islow, giving little head space. The gallery of thehouse makes an impression of lack of space, verydifferent to that made by the long wide gallery ofa Kayan or Kenyah house. Although the more solidly built houses, such asthose of the Kayans, would be habitable for manygenerations, few of them are inhabited for morethan fifteen or twenty years, and some are usedfor much shorter periods only. For one reasonor another the village community decides to builditself a new house on a different and sometimesdistant site, though the new site is usually in thesame tributary river, or, if on the main river, withina few miles of the old one. The most frequentcauses of removal are, first, using up of the soilin the immediate neighbourhood of th
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