Saturday, 20 January 2018

Traditonal sumba village

Sumba traditional village, the population here still adheres to the beliefs of the ancestors.
Kampung Adat Praijing is located in Tebara Village, Waikabubak Subdistrict, West Sumba District, Nusa Tenggara Tmur Province. In this village there are 38 traditional houses typical of Sumba. Before the fire in 2000 ago, which spent 20 homes, traditional houses in this village amounted to 42 houses.

Traditional house Sumba commonly called Uma Bokulu or Uma Mbatangu. Uma Bokulu means big house, and Uma Mbatangu means tower house. The traditional house here is in the form of a house on stilts and has a towering roof like a tower, but there are some houses that do not have a roof tower.

"The traditional house here is divided into three parts: the lower part for raising livestock, the middle for its inhabitants, and the top or tower for storing groceries"









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