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crafts: Torajan crafts are very similar to Dayak art of Borneo, mostly two dimensional and not very dynamic, yet some crafts make striking wall hangings. Toraja is very much a bamboo culture: roofs, water carriers, cooking vessels, engraved and decorated cases used for carrying small objects. Lime cases and bamboo flutes are covered with intricate black designs burnt in with a hot iron. If you go out to the villages themselves (such as Kate' Kesu), buy flutes for Rp 25, bamboo necklaces for Rp125, and carved murals for Rp4-600. In the interiors expert pottery is made. Mesolithic bark-clothing (tapa or fuyus) of the Celebes-Moluccas areas reached a finesse unknown anywhere else in the world and were worn until quite recent times. Made out of inner barks, the bast was soaked in water up to 2 weeks, then beaten until soft and flexibile. Small pieces were felted into large ones, eliminating the need for seams. You can still find old examples in the hinterlands.fabrics: Sa'dan is the weaving center. All the designs seen in Torajan houses are also seen in their fabrics. Human figures are so cleverly interwoven into strict geometrical patterns that only an expert can pick out the figures from the lines. Much Torajan weaving is very similar to the weaving of Latin America (Guatemala), in the texture of the cloth and in the designs and even the colors: red, white, yellow and black. Some beautiful sarongs. Reddish ikat-weaving with black and blue patterns is found. Expensive oganically dyed ikat-blankets take up to 3 months to make; the best come from Makki, Rongkong and Seko, Rp20-30,000. Those found in the shops of Rantepao are artificially dyed and cost Rp7000, Rp8000, and Rp9000. Artificially dyed ones in the villages are cheaper at Rp2000, Rp3000, and Rp4000.
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
