The length of the house

The length of the house or called Betang House is also home where ethnic communities live in the dayak community ties one family clan. The length of stay home this community in accordance with the number of families (soma), which also means that the more the number of families will be too long building, which is marked with a number of doors (door).
Each one family consisting of a father, mother and children who do not marry will occupy a space in the room (kebilik), which is also equipped with a kitchen for cooking
If there is any family members who marry and form a new family, they make room on the other that connect the end of the room and so forth, so long that there is a house-sized with 400 to 300 meters of inhabited by 60 to 70 families.
Ascend the stairs to go down the stairs forming a single, but there are also building houses that have a long 2 or 3 of the fruit.. On the night of the scaffold will be raised to the top, to avoid from enemy attack or wild animals.
At the top of the stairs is usually shaped carved human head, dragon head, or other type of animal that is considered sacred according to their beliefs, carvings on the head of this as the spirit of the ancestors who will protect them from all sorts of dangers.
At the time now that this house is still intact long standing and still inhabited only a few pieces only, the remaining are listed as in the Village Stocks Pahauman Kabupaten Pontianak, in the village of Kopar Sanggau District and Village Melapi in Kapuas Hulu regency.