Modern Marshallese Huts
(Vernacular Architecture)

A Photo Essay
by Dirk HR Spennemann


Modern Pandanus-covered huts on Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll. Photograph taken in 1989
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Modern Pandanus-covered hut on Tokowa Island, Mile Atoll. Note the comparatively ill-designed roof. Photograph taken in 1991.
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Guest hut of the Rongelapese community on Mejatto Island, Kwajalein Atoll. Photographed in January 1993
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Guest hut of the Rongelapese community on Mejatto Island, Kwajalein Atoll. Photographed in January 1993
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Guest hut of the Rongelapese community on Mejatto Island, Kwajalein Atoll. Photographed in January 1993.
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

A wooden thatching needle used to weave Pandanus anc coconut thatch. Mejatto Island, Kwajalein Atoll. Photographed in January 1993
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Interior view of the guest hut of the Rongelapese community on Mejatto Island, Kwajalein Atoll. Photographed in January 1993
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Interior view of the guest hut of the Rongelapese community on Mejatto Island, Kwajalein Atoll. Photographed in January 1993
(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)




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Bibliographic citation for this document

Spennemann, Dirk H.R. (2002). Marshallese Huts (Vernacular Architecture)--A Photo Essay. URL: http:/marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/culture/hutpix.html

CONTACT:
Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, P.O.Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia.
e-mail: dspennemann@csu.edu.au


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