rice-barns

The typical rice-barns are lavishly decorated with gilding, carving, and colour, inlaid with glass mosaic, and edged with balls of red and blue crystal, the upward sweep of the slender horns sharply silhouetted against the glowing cobalt of heaven.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Javanese act as woodmen, gardeners, and road-makers; the Klings serve as cowherds and drivers of ox-waggons; the Bengalese prove efficient policemen, and the Boyans skilful carpenters; the clearing of the forest pertaining to Malays and Batteks, also responsible for the building of the marvellous rice-barns, the apotheosis of Sumatran architecture.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Houses and rice-barns stand on high poles, after the Malay fashion, which originated in the malarious districts of the Lowlands.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

The curious houses of the Sumatran Highlands, with their adjacent rice-barns, form distinctive features of this unique island.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings