The neighbour's honai used to be located in our office's lawn. But several months ago, they decided to move out to a bigger yard next to the office.
During one weekend, I went to visit them and they invited me to come inside their house.
FYI, honai is a traditional house of Papua. Specifically, it’s the typical house of highland community.
It’s made of wood and the roof is covered by sago palm leaves. There’s no tile whatsoever, you can only find earth or dried grass covering the floor. A fireplace is built in the middle of honai for cooking and also to keep the occupants warm at night.
Each honai is usually inhabited by several people, probably around 6 – 12. Men and women live in separate honai, eventhough generally little boys sleep with their mom.
Anyway, the last video shows my neighbour's wearing Sali (the traditional skirt). She asked me to take her pictures, and I guess she wanted to give her best look by putting the Sali on😊. And the brown dog, is Coklat (named after its color. Brown in bahasa Indonesia is Coklat). She usually accompanies me having breakfast, where she sits nicely in the corner, and waits for some leftovers.
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