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César’s kitchen, Remolino
Ecuador

Description

This structure, documented in early 2001, used to be the kitchen of César Piaguaje's house. The Secoya house type that used these separate kitchens was known as Pa'pa Huë'e. The Pa'pa Huë'e was, more than a house, a "mini-urban" family complex composed by several housing structures, at least two, one of them for living and the other for cooking. The structures were invariably built keeping a considerable distance in between, around twenty feet in this case. The house was divided in several structures because the Secoya polar roof geometry made it difficult to add spaces once a structure was finished, at least without having to disassemble and then re-build almost half of it. As for the separation between the structures, this was meant to prevent the eventual spread of fire from one structure to the other, and especially from the most fire-prone of them, the kitchen, to the rest of the house.¹

This particular kitchen expressed very well in physical form some aspects of the Secoya social organization. One of the most interesting features of the kitchen was that it was in actuality two kitchens, with separate stoves, sets of utensils, storage, etc. One of them was used by César's wife while the other was used by one of his siblings' wife (César's parents also living nearby). The separation existed despite the two of them had a harmonious and supportive relationship. This was just an expression of the Secoya patrilocal pattern of residence in the use of space. When César married, his wife, a Quichua-speaking woman from another community, had to move and live in his family house. Despite sharing a space, César and his wife's was a different family unit and that was evident in the presence of two kitchens under the same structure.

By the Summer 2003, the structure had been abandoned and its sawn floor planks had been removed, probably to be used in a new house elsewhere.

¹ In one of the narratives that he collected about the Upper Amazon missions, Father Chantre y Herrera tells the story of the almost complete destruction by fire of a mission village in the 18th century, because of structures being too close to each other. This could have been one of the antecedents that led to the custom of building these structures, especially kitchens, always keeping a good separation in between.

Location

Ecuador – Sucumbíos – Secoya Remolino.

Images

The kitchen when it was still in use, and after it was abandoned (more images pending to upload).
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Classification
Keywords	Ecuador
Type	Pa'pa Huë'e
Related types	Tui'que Huë'e, Zinc House
Related models	Delfín's Tui'que Huë'e; Colón's Pa'pa Huë'e, San Pablo; Generic Zinc House; Zinc House in San Pablo de Kantesiya

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For academic purposes, please cite this page as:
Arboleda, Gabriel. César’s kitchen, Remolino [online]. Berkeley, CA: Ethnoarchitecture.com, 18 February 2006 [cited 8 January 2009]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.Ethnoarchitecture.com/web/models/model/473>.

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