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45left.Cooking is mainly carried out at the left hearth.The right hearth is for warming the house.The floor israised from the ground at least two to four feet high.The Kukis usually select their house plot on slopingground.Therefore in some parts of the house the floor willbe as high as six or seven feet from the ground.A six-footsquare platform serves as the children's bathroom, fromwhich a ladder serves as an escape line in case of enemyattack. The house is encircled by upright wooden plankswith a strong front gate. This area is an enclosure whichserves as aplace for buffaloes, pigs, bison, or mithuns.There is a raised platform as high as seven to tenfeet from the grounu at the front side of the house.It isabout seven feet square and serves as asitting place in aleisure time. The courtyard, just before the first room,serves as agrinding place; and fire wood and other heavyarticles are kept there.The household deity--the magicalwand--i s hung from the roof either f rom the 1eft side or theright side.It is high enough that children or even adultscan not easily reach it from the floor.The chief's house is generally bigger and betterbuilt than any other house in the village.Usually thereare three or four hearths in the chief's house, depending onthe size of the house. An average Kuki house is abouteighteen feet wide, twenty-three to twenty-five feetlong, and fifteen feet high. The chief's house, if thevillage is a big one, may be three times bigger than the