#vernacular-architecture

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Musgum Mud Huts

The traditional dwellings of the Musgum tribe in Cameroun consisted of sun-dried mud huts of a shell shape. Each domestic structure (also called "obus", or "beehive type") was 3 to 9m high, needed 6 months to be built out of mud, thatch, water and simple tools and was ornamented by many inverted...