Main House

Lets Wash Our Feet

Families finished their evening meal and dishes were washed. The last task of the evening was to pass around a basin (Karai) of warm water for everybody to…

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Lets Go To Bed

Lets Go To Bed

With everybody’s feet clean and dry and the fire slowly dying down, it was time for the family to relocate to the Main House to sleep. Majority of…

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Sneak Out To Go Dancing

Sneak Out To Go Dancing

My brothers attended dances all over their friends Kiumbus, but they never hosted one. We did not have older working siblings who owned a record player and even…

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Walkways

Every homestead has a number of buildings in it. The standard ones are Main House, Kitchen, Granary, Thingira and Latrine. There is always a narrow footpath that connects…

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