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Where in the World is Gumbo? #27

 

WITW 27

Where in the World is Gumbo—and what in the world is this?

 

Gumbo's travels have taken him to a place where a house seems ready to walk—and it's a house that appears to have neither doors nor windows! So, as usual, where is Gumbo?

 

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So exactly where is Gumbo today?

 

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Alright, then...a Saturday hint or so.

 

1. It's neither a playhouse, nor a residence

2. It plays an important role in the lives of a semi-nomadic people

3. This example is not in its original location or area

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It looks like a giant cache to me.

 

People in a cold climate would hunt in the fall, put their meat up in a similar structure (small house on tall poles) where it would stay cold/freeze (sort of like a giant refrigerator freezer).  By removing the ladder, no predators could get up there.

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Andre Pur has submitted a guess by e-mail:

 

Indonesia, treehouse for the nomadic people from Papua region. Well, this isn't that, but it sent me scurrying for a sample and here we have an 1885 picture, courtesy of Wikimedia, of one under construction in Papua New Guinea. Wow!

  

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