A small housing cluster.
A named sub-division of the houses of a village; either an isolated cluster or a sub-division of a large cluster. The clusters range from about five to thirty houses. If a cluster grows much larger it is sub-divided into two clusters. The housing cluster is a socially functioning unit: it contributes rice, rice beer and firewood to the family of one who has died, to feed people, bu'al, before burial, helps to guard the dead person, when necessary calls relatives, and shares part of the sacrificed pig, hāmul, for the dead person. In preparation for a pāhang feast sponsored by someone of the housing cluster, other members prepare rice beer, īwa, as their contribution; when pigs are butchered, a share, inyiwāan, is given to each family of the cluster. It sometimes functions as a work bee, dangah, for carrying heavy objects. At harvest time, īwang, members of the cluster may eat food prepared for harvesters. Housing clusters are classified as either clusters of the central agricultural sub-district, hīgib hinan babluy, or clusters of a peripheral agricultural sub-district, hīgib hinan pingngit. The former are either within or adjacent to the central sub-district.
Hamlets and Sub-Divisions of the Central Hamlet of Batad
| Adottal |
Ginnaw |
| Aghaw |
Hīgib |
| Bagtūna* |
Liyug* |
| Bāleh |
Nabnong |
| Ballūha |
Naggul |
| Bangnga' |
Patpat |
| Bā'an* |
Patti' |
| Bo'oh |
Tatagwang |
| Dungdung |
Ti''id |
| Gabgab |
Tungel |
*Sub-division of Babluy, the central hamlet