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Ethnographic comparisons Limited ethnographic analogy may provide some insights to structure types, sizes and life spans in the Tutu village. In its variety of structure types, the Tutu village appears to resemble the Trio village of Guiana, where eight main types of dwelling house, and variants, are distinguished. In a Trio village, only one structure type, however, is the proper house (Rivière, 1994: 191) for filling certain social, spatial, ritual and symbolic specifications. Such houses are usually round. It is unknown whether, at Tutu, a difference between round structures with central posts, round structures without central posts, and oval structures, reflected functional differentiation also. In addition to houses, a Trio village contains other buildings as well, such as workhouses where women process food, temporary shelters for visitors, shamans huts, menstruation houses and birth huts (Rivière, 1994; Roe & Siegel, 1982). Such structures were probably part of the Tutu village configuration also.