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Updated: June 25, 2025
The following description of a fay'-u is of an ordinary dwelling in Bontoc pueblo: The fay'-u are all constructed on the same plan, though a few are larger than the one here described, and some few are smaller. The front and back walls of the house are 3 feet 6 inches high and 12 feet 6 inches long. The two side walls are the same height as the ends, but are 15 feet 6 inches long.
Beneath it are stored the small cages or coops in which the chickens sleep at night. There are a few fay'-u in Bontoc in which the threshing room and cooking room are on the right of the aisle and the long bench is on the left, but they are very rare exceptions. In the rear of the building is a board partition apparently extending from one side wall to the other.
A'-fong is the general name for Bontoc dwellings, of which there are two kinds. It is the home of the prosperous. The family dwelling primarily serves two purposes it is the place where the man, his wife, and small child sleep, and where the entire family takes its food. The fay'-u is built at considerable expense.
Some such buildings have a partition or partial partition running across them, beyond which are the sleeping boards, and there are shelves here and there; but the kat-yu'-fong is a makeshift, and consequently is not so fixed a type of dwelling as the fay'-u. Piled close around the dwellings is a supply of firewood in the shape of pine blocks 3 or 4 feet long, usually cut from large trees.
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