| caption: |
rebuilding the house of Thepong morung Ang |
| caption: |
the interior; house finished |
| text: |
In the meantime the older men are working on the interior walls of the house. Shankok is mostly occupied with splitting bamboo which he does in an ingenious way by pulling a bamboo which has been split into four parts at the beginning a cross made of two bamboo sticks (sic). (See notebook 9 p. 190). By four o'clock the roof is almost finished, only the ridge beam and the protruding beams remain to be tied up by the old men. (Notebook 12 p. 7). By a quarter to five the the house has been completed so far that the boys once more get on the roof and sing a long chant, led by Yongwei |
