What indigenous one-room windowless house of the Ifugao is elevated on four sturdy posts with wooden rat guards (halipan) and joined without nails?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. the Fale (Bale)
- Step 1: The Ifugao Fale is an architectural marvel built entirely of fitted mortise-and-tenon timbers with halipan disk guards on posts to repel rats. Answer: the Fale (Bale). Why not the others: Rakuh is the Ivatan stone house in Batanes.
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