Most Abelam villages have a towering gabled structure with an A-shaped facade - the spirit or cult house called korambo (haus tambaran in Pidgin). The facade is
brightly painted with red, yellow, black and white pigments. This painted portion is usually divided into two or three tiers of nggwal clan spirit faces. The paintings are
done on sago petioles, the bark-like bases of the fronds of the sago palm, stitched together to create a more extensive „canvas“. Below the looming faces of the clan
spirits an elaborately carved lintel depicting nggwalndu spirit figures forms the lower end of the painted portion . Below the lintel the facade consists of woven sago
palm leaves and incorporates the low, tunnel-shaped entrance.