Vietnam Museum of Ethnology 4

Sedang house is the tallest structure in the village, this communal house is a meeting hall, a site for ceremonies, and a reception hall for visitors. In modern times, family groups live in stilt houses arranged variously around the communal house, although in earlier periods large households used to live in long houses. In Ede house, walls are of plaited bamboo and the structure is raised off the ground on two rows of columns. The roof is straw.