A Dinka home usually includes several huts: a sleeping hut or two, a stable, a raised storage hut and a cooking hut. If there's no cooking hut the women often cook in the stable. Sometimes it also serves as an extra bedroom and a workroom.
My friend Anon (pronounced "an-own") has one of these multi-purpose stables. The video below shows the inside of it. Anon is doing some cooking. Her neighbor Awek is making flour from rice she pounded several times in a big wooden mortar. A few of Anon's children are there, very excited, particularly at the end when their baby goats are being filmed. You'll see a few beds in the stable, as it is also used for sleeping.
One of my favourite things about Dinka huts is the beams on the inside of the roof. The way they are joined together and the pattern they make is quite the work of art. You'll get a glimpse of this in the video.
I don't have a picture of the outside of the hut but it's very similar to the one below.
My friend Anon (pronounced "an-own") has one of these multi-purpose stables. The video below shows the inside of it. Anon is doing some cooking. Her neighbor Awek is making flour from rice she pounded several times in a big wooden mortar. A few of Anon's children are there, very excited, particularly at the end when their baby goats are being filmed. You'll see a few beds in the stable, as it is also used for sleeping.
One of my favourite things about Dinka huts is the beams on the inside of the roof. The way they are joined together and the pattern they make is quite the work of art. You'll get a glimpse of this in the video.
I don't have a picture of the outside of the hut but it's very similar to the one below.
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