The Lepa House Boat is a traditional wooden house boat, made by the Sama Dilut, can carry a family of 5-6 members. The lepa boat on display in the National Museum of Anthropology is 118 cm long, 28 cm wide, and 62.5 cm tall. This is only a smaller model hosted in the museum. It’s made of wood, nipa, and cloth.

The lepa is designed to navigate shallow waters, ranging from 9 to 15 meters long and 1.5 to 2.2 meters wide. (Paquibot, L. 2016) The hull of the lepa is carved from a huge piece of wood, with preferred wood species are bahanan, gapul, and gag-gil. (Castillo, n.d.) Nowadays, the lepa is hard to make traditionally due to it being hard to acquire a big enough piece of wood. However, building nowadays just takes reinforcing the hull with other wood pieces or materials. It has a uniquely designed sail usually made of hardwood with ukkil / okir motif carvings on the boat, projecting hulls, and prow. (National Museum of the Philippines, n.d.)

Inside the lepa are common household items such as a stove, cooking pots, water storage, and fishing gear such as nets, traps, and spears. Usually the Sama stayed in clusters of 10-20 of these house boats, with lepa being the most popular type of house boat. In current times, less of the Sama Dilut use lepas, however they are still in use today.