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1313.  An Indian house at Urbina (see 1310).  The walls are of split bamboo boards.  This material is much used for houses in the lowlands.  On the uplands the material is mostly adobe but this house belongs to the railroad and the bamboo was brought from Guayaquil.

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1118.  A close view of bamboo boards (see 1310, 1110, 1313).  The bamboo is native on coastal plain of Ecuador.  The stems grow as much as 80 feet tall and 7 inches thick at base.  The stems are slit and finally split and flattened out, the remains of the partitions being smoothed off with an adz.  The boards are mostly 12 to 18 inches wide.