Bontoc tribal native museum

The two pics above show a pre-modern house for "young women." According to the pics at the museum, this is how they were living in 1950. Now its the regular comfy, ugly stuff we live in.

Bontoc museum

This is the circle where young boys hang out with the elders and learn how to become men, or some such.
This box is the bedroom. I guess it keeps the body heat in.
See the bed box in back.



Pre modern housing local huts.
Following this link to some great 1950 photos by Eduardo Masferre.
http://my_sarisari_store.typepad.com/my_sarisari_store/2009/08/index.html