Note 9 — Chapter I · THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION

Such communal huts, while still used in the Little Andaman and by the J̌a̤rawa, and formerly used by the forest-dwellers of the Great Andaman, were apparently not often erected by the coast-dwellers of the larger island at the time the islands were occupied in 1858. Mr Man seems to have regarded them as being peculiarly characteristic of the J̌a̤rawa and the natives of the Little Andaman9. There is evidence, however, that even the coast-dwellers formerly erected such huts, for in the Akar-Bale tribe there are several places with names such as Paruŋ Bud and Golugma Bud, which show that communal huts existed there at some time. The word bud is used to denote a communal hut, as compared with a village, which is called baraiǰ.