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Value búbuŋ
Language:
Ifugaw
Parameter:
peak of the pyramidal roof of an Ifugaw house or granary consisting of a couple of grass bundles attached to and above the grass that already covers the highest parts of the topmost roof slope and upper ends of the rafters. Thus, these bundles of grass constitute the outside . Since the grass bundles are firmly attached to, and the twelve rafters nailed to a wooden disk, the disk which helps support the rafters constitutes, together with the tops of the rafters, the inside , and is rightly called or / [7b069cbdf2af0367faa7bc1512bfe337]
References
Lambrecht 1978
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