They were authorized to install office holders and hand out their corresponding seats on the stuccoed benches in thelonghousestructures.
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Then there is that group of cases who may have been identified by theirlonghousecommunity as ill but who have never sought medical treatment.
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Assessments were carried out over a 6-month period by travelling to each individual'slonghouseand, in remote locations, staying with the family overnight.
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In cases of divorce, the woman returns to her parents'longhouse, while the children remain with their father and are integrated into his community.
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A typicallonghousewould often hold an extended family in two apartments, which clearly contrasts with the facilities now demanded in contemporary contexts.
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Thelonghousefirst appears on record in an 1851 census survey.
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Bilik are private family spaces that are clearly demarcated from the more public open space (ruai) that runs the length of thelonghouse.
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This is especially so forlonghousedwellers who commonly relate experiences of encounters with the dead and with spirits, usually in dreams and to a lesser extent in waking life.
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I should build alonghouse.
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I was asked to receive a communication from thepongolu, the headman of thelonghouse, which is a hamlet of people who live in one long house.
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Usually an extended family occupied onelonghouse, and cooperated in obtaining food, building canoes, and other daily tasks.
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A byre was attached to the eastern wall of thelonghouseand both what has been determined to be an outhouse.
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He also retrieves a false face mask from thelonghouse.
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The constitutive groups live in isolated settlements in units of four to eight families dwelling in multifamily longhouses.
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The interior walls of longhouses were typically lined with sleeping platforms.
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