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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.
Mentawai language, their Austronesian language Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mentawai .
Bahasa Indonesia; Kiswahili; ... The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Mentawai Islanders Islanders in a photo by C.B. Niewenhuis. The Mentawai Islands have been administered as a regency within the West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat) province since 1999. The regency seat is Tua Pejat, on the island of Sipora. Padang, the capital of the province, lies on the Sumatran mainland opposite Siberut.
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Mentawai people The Sakuddei or Sabiroet people are an ethnic group , one of at least eleven, on the island of Siberut , Indonesia . Siberut is the northernmost of the Mentawai Islands which are located 130 km (81 mi) to the west off the coast of Sumatra .
The Mentawai Islands rain forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Indonesia. It covers the Mentawai Islands , an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra . The islands have been separated from Sumatra since the mid-Pleistocene period, and their geographic isolation allowed the evolution of several endemic ...
Sikakap, along with Tuapeijat, is one of the only places in the Mentawai Islands where electricity and telecommunications are available. [8] There is a hospital and a church in the village, [9] [10] as well as a harbor [11] (the main transport hub in the Mentawai islands [12]) and a district police station. [13]