Three connected conical huts near the entrance house the museum and echo the design of early monastic dwellings.

But they are always colorful and they wear a broom in their hands, their face covered and a colorful conical hut.

Now they were busily and happily lacing this material into conical huts of primitive design, not unlike those to be found in their native Africa.

At the opening of one conical thatched hut about 800 yards from the feeding center, a mother said that she was too sick to take her starving child for the morning rations.

For example, in the Harz Mountains of Germany, charcoal burners lived in conical huts called Köten which are still much in evidence today.

He heard shouting ahead, and a moment later the trail de-touched onto a clearing in the center of which was a palisaded village of conical, straw-thatched huts.

There were many natives lolling in shady spots beside the conical huts or beneath the branches of the several trees which had been left standing within the enclosure.

The western coastal strip, the Tihama, that hugs the Red Sea, looks like Africa, with its dense tropical forests and conical huts.

Around him, several of his 24 grandchildren played tag among traditional grain bins he built there - conical huts with grass roofs, full of millet.

These shaggy, conical huts serve as symbols of the community, linking modern islanders to their past.