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Show Make Homes in Clay Huts. The native of Klrdi-Massa, on the west coast of Africa, builds his home of a stiff clay much like the adobe used by Mexicans and Indians, says Popular Science Monthly. This Is poured over a framework of slender wooden poles used as reinforcements, and allowed to dry in the sun. The design Is worked on with a crude trowel-like tool while the mud la moist. The houses look like huge anthills, ant-hills, with only an inadequate opening open-ing for a door In the side and a snip" round chimney hole at the top to admit light and air. The design on the out- ! side Is often elaborate and worked out with the greatest pains, for it serves to Identify the owner of the hut, and is virtually "copyrighted" by him. ! |