1.3 First patrol at the end of the line. Distant village of Honabi, south of which, "There are no more people!" |
1.8 Approaching the Yibihilu longhouse from across the village clearing. |
2.1 The Gebusi longhouse at dawn, boy in the foreground. The smoke of cooking fires rising through the thatch meets the morning mist. |
2.2 Gebusi longhouse in late afternoon. House dimensions = 34 ft x 74 ft. |
2.3 Longhouse floor plan, showing rooms and the areas of the house used by men and women. Families cook and eat communally in the lower house, but the rest of the dwelling is sex segregated. Men and women sleep separately - intimate relations between husbands and wives take place in the forest. The central corridor, mens sleeping area, and large veranda of the house are the exclusive space of men. The womens collective sleeping quarters, which are small and cramped, are normally the only part of the house used by women except for the cooking area. On special occasions such as ritual feasts, women are allowed to sit in the mens sleeping area and sing. |
2.4 Longhouse interior, looking towards the cooking area and front door from the raised sleeping area, with a young boy in silhouette. |
2.5 A young married woman stands next to the small opening to the low and narrow women’s sleeping section, which lines one side of the longhouse |
7.21 Bruce’s house, 1998 (flag courtesy of Eileen) |
12.2 The main village path and houses of Yibihilu as they appeared back in 1981. The view is almost identical to that of the previous photograph, which was taken seventeen years later, in 1998. |
