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An Uma, the traditional communal house of the Mentawai A Mentawai woman, 2017 Man with drum in the Mentawai Islands.. The Mentawai live in the traditional dwelling called the Uma which is a longhouse and is made by weaving bamboo strips together to make walls and thatching the roofs with grass, the floor is raised on stilts and is made of wood planks.
Siberut is the northernmost of the Mentawai Islands which are located 130 km (81 mi) to the west off the coast of Sumatra. The Sakuddei live in south-central Siberut in an egalitarian society, cut off from the outside world. They speak a dialect of the Malayo-Polynesian Mentawai language.
The culture of Bangladesh is deeply intertwined with the culture of the Bengal region. Basically, Bengali culture refers to the culture of Bangladesh. The Bengal Renaissance contained the seeds of a nascent political Indian nationalism which was the precursor in many ways to modern Indian artistic cultural expression.
The Salukat is a quiver made of a long segment of bamboo with a partition at the lower part and a long sharp protrusion at the tip. [1] The arrow used are not fletched.In some cases the nock was provided by whipping two slivers of wood on opposite sides of the tail end of the shaft in such a way that they projected a short distance beyond it.
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Metawai Festival or Mentawai Charm Festival (Indonesian: Festival Pesona Mentawai) is a traditional festival/carnival held annually since 2016 at Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra in Indonesia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The festival aims to promote national and international tourism to the Mentawai Islands Regency , arranged by the Indonesian Ministry ...
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A Mentawai man seen with a traditional knife, Palitai at the waist. The Palitai has a straight and double edged blade. The handle is uniquely long, slim and curiously curved in shape. [2] It is a knife with a smooth blade on both edges of which are sharpened and run parallel. The edges come together at the tip to the end in a sharp point.