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Honai

Honai is a traditional architecture from Papua,Indonesia. It is a house and people live in there

Honai is made out of wood with a cone-shaped roof which is made out of straw or can be made out of thatch. The first floor of the building is used for sleeping. The second floor is used for their activity,resting,etc.

There are three types of Honai.

The first one is the house for male (Honai). It's name is taken from two words, "Hun" which means man and "Ai" which means house. The second is the house for female (Ebei). The third is pig cages (Wamai).

Honai is also used for special education facility. The boy from the tribe who is turning to be an adult or a man needs to learn things to prepare for his life in the future. For Ebei, Honai is used to do education process for the woman who is turning to be an adult too.

The purpose of Honai is to keep those people from cold weather and educate their children how to prepare things for his or her life.