This is a typical house for a woman to build during the dry season in the lowlands. It is constructed of small poles with heavier poles used as center posts.
Animal hides line the sleeping areas and provide a windbreak on the outside walls.
Removing hides from some walls provides ventilation and light. Note the house fire, left foreground. This is a shop constructed in a rural Samburu settlement. While a Samburu house is barely taller than the woman who built it, with a door too low to pass through without stooping, this shop can be entered standing.