LEILANI B. CARINO The Ifugao houses are small but well constructed, standing upon four or more posts, which are sometimes quaintly carved, and are in...
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The Ifugao houses are small but well constructed, standing upon four or more posts, which are sometimes quaintly carved, and are invariably provided with projecting shoulders to prevent rats and other small animals from gaining entrance into the house.
The Ifugao house is small but well constructed, standing upon four or more posts, which are sometimes quaintly carved, and are invariably provided with projecting shoulders to prevent rats and other small animals from gaining entrance into the house. You can see houses like these when you visit the Banawe Rice terraces in Ifugao.
Typically the Ifugao house sits elevated on four sturdy posts, a windowless structure built of hand-hewn native timbers expertly fastened with mortised joints and tenons. Inside there is an open earth and stone fireplace for cooking, and floormats for sleeping and sitting. Family possessions -- baskets, bowls, clothing, skulls (human and animal), and magic paraphernalia -- are hung from walls or stacked on elaborately carved shelves. Wood ceilings are low, to allow for the storage of rice overhead; underneath the house is a place to sit and gossip and work on household tasks. Although Ifugao houses vary little from this basic configuration, houses of the nobility often feature distinctive
architectural refinements such as massive Hagabi lounging benches, decorated attic beams, kingposts and doorjambs carved with human effigies, and ornate exterior friezes portraying pigs, carabao and other animals. Separate rice granaries which are smaller, but otherwise of the same basic design and construction of houses, are also evidence of high status within the community, earned by ambitious and industrious individuals.
