Inside a hut

A typical hut is made up two rooms. One inner room and one outer room. In most cases there are no windows. However there are exceptions. Some have 3 rooms and a window.In this case one room serves as a kitchen. It was always night inside the inner room.
Some also do not have doors. There are mostly no doors in opening that connects the rooms. One trademark of all the huts is a mud bed. This mud bed probably were built at the same time with the mud walls of the building because the grow up from the floor. They are solid rectangles and two sides of the rectangle(lentgh and width) are fused with the mud wall.The mud bed only needs a mat on top of it for someone to sleep. During the dry season when the temperature is hot, it is very cool and someone could cool off lying on it bare. Another type of bed that was common then was the wood and bambo bed. This bed has rectangular like the mud bed but the width seems to be wider and the length shorter. It has four wooden supports each at the four corners of the bed just like the mordern bed connected together by whole bambo trunks. The middle is the formed by the weaving of split bambo trunks that criscross each other at right angles along the whole length of the bed. This kind of bed were good home for bedbugs.lol!

On one part of the hut, a partial ceiling is formed with logs of wood. The wood ceiling and all the other part of the roof are brownish or black due to the smoke that come from the fireplace. These served as storage for most things. This also served as hiding place for rats.
The fireplace is constructed with 3 big stones inbetween which firewoods are inserted under a pot supported by the stone while cooking. You could imagine the colour of the pots-black. While there were metallic pots, some were made of clay. The clay pots had smooth exterior and very shinny interior. Cooking with a clay pot could take 4 times the time required to cook with a metallic pot.
During full moon, the shadow of the triangular roof of the huts provide the dark spot needed for playing hide and seek.