the pearl by john steinbeck description of the doctors house and kinos house

Kino’s house is a simple brush hut, a style that the native Indians are accostomed to for centuries. The furnishings are functional and primitive. The floor made of dirt. The doctor's house by contrast reflects a European villa,

Beside him on a table was a small Oriental gong and a
bowl of cigarettes. The furnishings of the room were heavy and dark and
gloomy. The pictures were religious, even the large tinted photograph
of his dead wife, who, if Masses willed and paid for out of her own
estate could do it, was in Heaven. ch 1