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    The document provides details on the traditional architecture and dwellings of indigenous groups in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It describes the hut structures of the Onge and Nicobarese peoples, made of bamboo, wood, and palm thatch to form conical shapes. Kitchen huts had fireplaces and storage areas. Dwellings were built on stilts to protect from floods and animals. Modern residences have incorporated local materials and styles influenced by the tropical climate.

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    The document provides details on the traditional architecture and dwellings of indigenous groups in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It describes the hut structures of the Onge and Nicobarese peoples, made of bamboo, wood, and palm thatch to form conical shapes. Kitchen huts had fireplaces and storage areas. Dwellings were built on stilts to protect from floods and animals. Modern residences have incorporated local materials and styles influenced by the tropical climate.

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    Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Vernacular Architecture India

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    ANDAMAN AND

    NICOBAR ISLANDS
    Vernacular Architecture India.
    Geographical Locations
    Geographical Locations
    • There are 349 islands in the territory having an
    area of 8,249 km2 (3,185 sq .mi.). Of these, about
    38 are permanently inhabited.
    • The islands extend from 6° to 14° North
    latitudes and from 92° to 94° East
    longitudes.
    • The Andamans are separated from the Nicobar
    group by a channel (the Ten Degree Channel)
    some 150 km (93 mi) wide.
    • The highest point is located in North Andaman
    Island (Saddle Peak at 732 m (2,402 ft). The
    Andaman group has 325 islands which cover an
    area of 6,170 km2 (2,382 sq mi) while the
    Nicobar group has only 24 islands with an area
    of 1,765 km2 (681 sq mi).
    Climatic Conditions
    • Tropical climate.
    • Humid Weather and has no winter season. Rainy
    season lasts for 180 days in a year. The southwest
    monsoon touches the Indian soil first in the
    Andamans and then proceeds towards the Indian
    mainland.
    • Seasons: Summer - January to April, Monsoon –
    May to December.
    Relative Humidity: 70% - 90%.
    Mean minimum temperature at 23 °C and
    maximum at 28°C
    Annual Rainfall: 3,000 mm
    • Andaman & Nicobar Islands is always warm, with
    pleasant sea-breeze . The rainy season happens twice a
    year under the influence of Southwest monsoon in
    mid-May to September, and Northeast monsoon in
    Onge Hut
    • They are built to the shape of a somewhat flattened
    cone, about 13 feet high, and 30 feet in diameter.
    • On a framework of light sticks , supported by
    twenty or more upright poles planted irregularly
    about the interior, a thick covering of large mats is
    laid.
    • The mats are made by fastening the stripped mid-ribs
    of a species of fern-palm side by side with a rattan
    lashing after the style of a "chick," and then securing
    at right angles to the foundation thus constructed a
    thick layer of the pinna of the same plant.
    • For doors, several of the lower mats are arranged to
    roll up, and leave an opening about 4 feet square.
    • Sleeping platforms are formed by laying split
    bamboos lengthwise on a framework, measuring
    about 5 feet by 4 feet, which is raised above the
    KAR NICOBARESE FAMILY
    AND DWELLING-
    KAR NICOBARESE FAMILY AND DWELLING-
    HOUSE, WITH LOUNGE BENEATH
    • All the buildings stand on thick piles, about
    7 feet high, but vary in architectural type.
    • The living-houses (pati), roughly about 20
    feet in diameter, and 15-20 feet in height
    from floor to apex, are in shape something
    between an inverted basin and a pie-dish,
    covered with a heavy thatch of lallang grass.
    • Without windows or visible entrance, the
    interior is reached by a neatly-made ladder of
    bamboo, or notched pole, through a trapdoor
    in the floor, which works on like hinges and
    has an alarum attached, so that any nocturnal
    intruder will make his presence known.
    KAR NICOBARESE FAMILY AND DWELLING-
    HOUSE, WITH LOUNGE BENEATH
    • The top of each pile is fitted with a large, circular, wooden disc, to prevent the
    entry of rats and reptiles, and beneath the house, in the shade, there is generally a
    swing, and also a platform of springy cane that serves the native for a lounge.
    Baskets, bag-shaped and wide-meshed, hang from the piles, and in these the hens are
    put when it is laying-time.
    • Inside, the walls are generally neatly lined with thin battens of areca palm attached
    horizontally; up in the roof, a kind of attic is formed, by means of a light shelving
    of areca or other palm wood, having a square aperture left in the centre for
    entrance.
    • On the floor, which is also grated, are the wooden clothes-chests that contain the
    family possessions, betel-boxes, the mats of areca palm leaf, and the wooden head-
    rests which are used when sleeping; and from the walls hang baskets, spears,
    crossbows, suspensory contrivances made from small branches with part of the twigs
    left on, and also some tobacco, coconuts, and a piece of pork—the offering to the
    A KITCHEN HOUSE,
    A KITCHEN HOUSE, MUS VILLAGE

    • At the further end the fireplace is situated. A flat block of wood is hollowed
    out and covered with sand or clay, and huge clay pots often with a capacity of
    many gallons stand above it, on pieces of stone, raising them clear of the
    coconut husks which are the principal fuel.
    • Around lie pandanus fruit, the boards and shells with which it is prepared for
    eating, and the thorn-armed leaf stems of the rattan, which the natives use for
    grating up coconut. Up in the roof, are stuck, between the thatch and the rafters,
    hollowed out wooden troughs, in which the food of the pigs, dogs, and other
    animals is prepared; flat wooden dishes, provision baskets, and fans for blowing
    up the fire, made of the sheathing petiole of palm trees, while, across the beams,
    are hung coconut shells joined in pairs by a short rattan handle which contain
    the day's supply of water.
    KITCHEN AND DWELLING-
    HOUSE,WITH
    KITCHEN AND DWELLING-HOUSE,WITH
    FESTIVAL TREES,NANKAURI
    • Bamboo posts, too, split at the upper end and spread out fanwise, are planted at intervals
    along the beach; they are put up yearly by every man in the village, to keep fever and devils
    (iwi) away; and several grotesque figures of crocodiles (yéo), placed in little shelters, raised
    on poles, prevent their living counterparts from attacking the villagers when they enter the
    water.
    • The houses are of two kinds, round and rectangular; the latter are used as kitchens and
    storerooms, but there is a fireplace in the others, where much of the cooking is done. The
    conical roofs are made of attaps of nipah palm, neatly fastened to a framework of thick rattan
    by lashings of cane, the sides and floor are generally of roughly-hewn boards; inside, about 3
    feet from the wall, a circle of posts helps to support the roof, which, in some cases, is entirely
    lined with horizontal laths of wood. The apex is crowned outside by a high, carved finial.
    Access is obtained by means of a notched pole, and to permit the entrance of domestic
    animals, a tree trunk, split and hollowed out to form a trough, slopes gently up from the
    ground to door or window. Beneath the houses are platforms on which the natives keep their
    DWELLING-HOUSES,DRING
    DWELLING-HOUSES,DRING HARBOUR,
    KARMOTA
    • They are fairly numerous, and those living near the shore are on friendly
    terms with the coast people, bartering jungle produce and rattans. It is not
    wise, however, to go into the interior of Great Nicobar, as the wild men
    (orang utan) will murder strangers for the sake of their clothes and
    ornaments. They themselves are clothed in bark apparel. Their houses are
    either light shelters, the materials of which they carry about in their
    journeys, fitted with bunks one above the other, beneath the lowest of
    which a small fire smoulders; or are of a more substantial construction,
    with a fence surrounding each house cluster.
    A VILLAGE OF THE SHOM PEN
    A VILLAGE OF THE SHOM PEN
    • The houses were small structures built on piles, 4 to 6 feet high, with
    open sides, and roofs of attaps.
    • The houses five in number, and recently constructed stood on piles about
    12 feet high; in several cases a live tree being built in. These supports were
    strengthened by diagonal struts a most uncommon form of scaffolding
    among savages. The floors were made of saplings placed side by side, and
    the side walls, about 3 feet high, of split nibong palm; while the roofs,
    which just afforded head-room at the apex, were roughly thatched with
    whole palm leaves, piled on butt downwards.
    HUTS OF THE SHOM PEN
    HUTS OF THE SHOM PEN
    • Each house was about 8 feet square, and at one end of each a small
    platform was attached, on which was the fireplace, with cooking
    apparatus of bark sheets covered with large green leaves, to prevent
    charring. In a corner of each hut was a shelf of split sticks, and a long
    trough of split and hollowed palm trunk sloped from ground to floor
    for the dogs and other animals to mount by. The ladders for human use
    were about 18 inches wide, with cross-pieces fastened on by rattan
    bindings.
    MODERN
    RESIDENCY IN
    ANDAMAN
    AND NICOBAR
    ISLANDS
    THANK YOU

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