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Batak Toba believe souls become an ancestral spirit and the children of the deceased perform funerary rites. If a person died childless a si gale-gale is created as a substitute. Complicated sigale gale could be life sized and featured actuation using wet moss or sponges that could be squeezed to make the dolls appear to cry.
Hasapi, also written as kacapi, hapitan, and kulcapi, is a two-stringed lute played by the Batak people of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. [1] The plucked instrument was used for Zere religious rituals and is now used as part of the orchestra accompanying the traveling theater Opera Batak.
Tortor (from Batak languages ᯖᯬᯒ᯲ᯖᯬᯒ᯲) is a traditional Batak dance originating from North Sumatra, Indonesia. This dance was originally a ritual and sacred dance performed at funerals, healing ceremonies, and other traditional Batak ceremonies. For the Batak people, tortor dance has both cultural and spiritual values.
The Batak Mandailing people is one of the ethnic group from the Province of North Sumatra. Their cultural heritage is the gordang sambilan (nine drums graded in size from large to small), complemented by two big gongs ( agung ), a bamboo flute ( sarune or saleot ), and a pair of small cymbals ( tali sasayat ).
Batak people in different areas cultivated either sawah (wet rice fields) or ladang (dry rice), and the Toba Batak, most expert in agriculture, must have migrated to meet demand in new areas. The increasing importance of rice had religious significance, which increased the power of the Batak high priests, who had responsibility for ensuring ...
Today the majority of Parmalim are Toba Batak. The largest of the several existing Parmalim groups has its centre in Huta Tinggi in the vicinity of Laguboti on the south shore of Lake Toba. [1] [2] The Malim religion has some similarities with Islam, including a prohibition on the consumption of pork and of blood, and the practice of wearing ...
Vol. 4: Music of Nias & North Sumatra: Hoho, Gendang Karo, Gondang Toba. Vol. 5: Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java. Vol. 6: Night Music of West Sumatra. Vol. 7: Music from the Forests of Riau and Mentawai. Vol. 8: Vocal and Instrumental Music from East and Central Flores. Vol. 9: Vocal Music from Central and West Flores.
Toba people, indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in South America; Toba Batak people, a sub-ethnic group of Batak people from North Sumatra, Indonesia; Tuoba (拓拔), an early name for a clan of the Xianbei people in ancient China; Toba Sōjō (1053–1140), Japanese astronomer and artist-monk; Emperor Toba, emperor of Japan