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rumah gadang (big house) Traditional Minang dwellings. Their peaked roofs are reminiscent of the curved horns of water buffaloes and of the womens' ceremonial headdress. You can tell how many husbands and children a family's daughters have by the number of extensions on the roof. Bedrooms are set aside for daughters of the household and their husbnds, and there's a long common room for living and dining. Raised up to 3'/z m off the ground, one must climb up and down the rumah gadang on a single piece of notched timber that's pulled up quickly in case of enemies, tigers, and snakes. Each cluster of houses in a village is often the locale of one matrilineage. Traditional houses are disappearing now, being replaced by brick and corrugated iron structures. In the Tanah Datar region, instead of shiny galvanized iron roofs mosques are divided into 4 or 5 pagoda-like roofs which mirror lingering Hindu influences. The old mosque of Lima Kaum has 5 storeys, symbolizing the 5 villages of the district. Because of dense foilage, drums in many Sumatran villages are beaten to announce the times of prayer, public announcements, or to give the alarm in case of emergency. A muezzin's voice would never carry.