Toraja Culture

• Introduction

Toraja's culture is a most important to people who want to know more about Toraja itself.

Toraja's culture consist of severals things, like a funeral ceremony, origin house, shirts and accesories, a habit of Toraja people, their custom and beliefs, etc. Another important things are Toraja jokes and puzzle.

In this section, we will explain to you all about Toraja culture. In this page we'll introduce you to know a little about Toraja traditional house of origin and shirts. To know more, you can go to page that available in the end of this page.

Another Toraja culture will be explain in other page.

We hope, after you read this page, you'll know better about Toraja and have a positive perception from maybe a wrong one that you knew so far.

Again, thank you very much.

• Toraja Traditional House

Toraja house provide more than shelter, they are extremely important nodes in the kinship network - the point of reference though which one traces families ties.

People maybe vague about genealogical links with distant relations, but they can invariably name the houses where their parents and grangparents were born, and are usually able to cite those of more distant ancestors.

In a very real sense, they consider themselves linked to others through a particular house.

The name of houses are often remembered in cases where the individuals have been forgotten, and in talking about kinship, a "house" idiom predominates.

People say that their "house join", or that they are "brothers and sisters within such-and- such a house," as a way of expressing their relationships.

• Toraja Traditional Costum's

It used if there are special moments, like funeral ceremony, welcome party, wedding ceremony, churches party, or some contest. And an important one is culture exhibition.

• For women called baju pokko' .
• It's like other usual shirts, but have a short hand.
• For man called seppa tallu buku .
• It's really unusual, because it's lenght just reached your knee.
• This two kind of shirts can added by some accesories, like gayang , lipa' , kandaure and other accesories that can make it looking better.

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