[Fig. 5] is a diagram of a transverse section across the centre of an emone, showing the internal construction. The explanatory note only deals with portions not explained in those to [Fig. 4].
Explanatory Note to Fig. 5.
Post a is the main central support of the building corresponding with post a in Fig. 4. Posts b b are central side supports to the roof. Poles c and d are attached to posts a b b, and help to strengthen the fabric. These poles are also used for hanging up sleeping hammocks, the other extremities of which are hung to the loko-loko of the roof ([Fig. 4], f). The name for post a is dudu, but this word is often used to express the whole structure a b b c d.
I have endeavoured in the diagrammatic sketch—Fig. 6—to illustrate the apse-like projection of the roof of an emone and the platform arrangements. I have in this sketch denuded the apse roof of its thatch, showing it in skeleton only; and I have shaded all timber work behind the platform, in order more clearly to define the latter.
Explanatory Notes to Fig. 6.
(a) Front end of thatch (asase) of main roof.
(b c d) Front apse-shaped roof (siafele), the thatch having been removed to show its internal construction.
(b c, b e, b d) Downward-sloping roof work (engala).
(f f, c d] Horizontal roof work (gegebe), carried round in curves.
Note.—Sometimes the apse-shaped roof is constructed as a continuation of the main roof of the building, in which case the gegebe of the former are a continuation of those of the latter. Sometimes the apse roof is a separate appendage, not connected with the main roof, and in that case the gegebe of the former are separate from those of the latter, and are fixed at their extremities to the loko-loko of the main roof.