Early in the mornings people rekindle their fires and prepare food for breakfast and lunch. Some of the smoke from cooking fires escapes through the thatch and from the ends of the roofs of the split bamboo houses to hang over the village until a breeze dispels it. Inside, the houses are filled with smoke. People leave the houses shortly after daybreak and walk to their fields, some perhaps two or three hours’ walk away. Mothers carry infants on their backs but leave weaned children in the care of older siblings or grandparents in the village. Before they leave, they release their pigs from pens near the houses to forage for food in the forest during the day.