This report shows rebuilding process of the custom house at Sumba Island in Indonesia. We focused one village, Wunga which follows their own common practice of long standing in this district. In the construction process, there are no specialists such as carpenters, and it is worked forward by the hand only for a large number of villagers of the neighborhood. 1 To study about this subject we also follow another example from all over the south-east Asian countries and other villages in Sumba Island. Some of the houses and villages are realized by using 3D CAD system. 2 All of the construction materials are collected within the range of life by themselves. We followed each of the process and realized their cost. 3 They are proceeding with praying courtesy at the turning point of each process. We also recorded it by shouting full scene and translated each word and concerned their meanings.

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1This article reports the results on the survey of the carpentry tools and traditional wooden buildings carried out in January 2010 in Kompong Cham Province, Prey Veng Province, Battambang Province and Kompong Thom Province of Cambodia. 2Because previously a carpenter possesses more than one-hundred carpentry tools, we can estimate how the variety of tools might be utilized at a time in the past. However, electric tools were exchanged for traditional tools recently, and many inherited carpentry tools are scattered and lost. 3 Several old wooden houses that was constructed at the beginning of 20th century were recorded at the Kompong Cham and Battambang Provinces. These houses were decorated elaborately by a number of wooden panel at the front facade, roofing members and so on. Because of the restriction on the trade of timber and proliferation of modern industrial products, therefore construction materials are diversified, and traditional carpentry technique are vanishing in recent years.

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