Pasola Festival | The blood war game of Sumba
On the Indonesian island of Sumba, the annual Pasola Festival marks the start of the new planting season. It is an ancient fertility ritual in theory, but in practice it is a violent blood sport. Mounted on horseback and bearing sharp wooden spears, two neighboring villages square off in mock combat that traditionally escalates beyond the symbolic act. The saying goes: It's not a pasola until there's blood on the field.
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The Pasola in Sumba Indonesia is a ritual confrontation with spears and on horses celebrated annually in West Sumba. Two clans line up some 20 horsemen who will prove their bravery by attacking the adverse clan on a sacred field. Created by The Tribe press agency - TheTPA.net Photos Jacques Maudy & Julie Andre
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The Pasola in Lamboya and Wanukaka, West Sumba, and Kodi, South West Sumba are the best ceremonies festival in Sumba Island, Indonesia.
The PASOLA is the name of ancient war ritual. It's war festival by two groups of selected Sumbanese men. They riding their colorful decorated and selected horses fling wooden spears at each other.
Sumba is one of the few islands in Indonesia where a majority of the population still follow the ways of their ancestors. One gets the sense that time has passed this island by and that only now is it slowly being drawn into the present.
On Sumba faith in the old traditions are very strong. Throughout the year the island is the site of many fascinating rituals, the most spectacular of them all are the Pasola ceremonies that take place during the months of February and March at select locations along the west coast of the island: Lamboya and Wanukaka in West Sumba, Kodi in South West Sumba.
The Pasola's are wild and martial events involving hundreds of charging horseman battling with spears on a large playing field. Serious injuries are common and there are occasional deaths of horses and even riders. In fact a Pasola is not considered successful without a proper amount of bloodletting. In Sumba blood on the ground is necessary to make it fertile, and one of the aims of the Pasola is to make the conditions right for the rice harvests that take place in the months of April and May. As we know, that National Geographic television channel have come recorded on it's channel.
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Sumba Island, the Southeastern of Timor, Indonesia: The Pasola is an annual spear-throwing battle conducted on horseback between bold men from neighbouring villages. Riders bedecked in battle dress thunder across a grassy plain with spears in hand, horses charging at full tilt. They aim, and hurtle their spears at their opponents with deadly precision. Blood is frequently drawn and riders often knocked from their mounts or maimed. Deaths are not uncommon at this event.
The spilled blood symbolises the fertilising of the fields and bodes well for the pending rice harvest, which in turn appeases the throng of onlookers, who by midday have worked themselves into a crazed fervour.
The ritual place of Pasola Ceremonies ... that take place during the months of February and March at select locations along the West Coast of the Island.
Until now, very few foreigners have been able to witness the Pasola. This is an ideal opportunity to experience a primitive, medieval culture at its fiercest, together with the learned Dr. Blair who will ensure guests depart with a heightened understanding and appreciation for this well-preserved culture.
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Sumba traditional dance performance
As found in many other cultures, traditional music and dance of Sumba was originally a part of worship. Nowadays as the time goes by, the dances also staged at government events, cultural performances even for tourist atrraction. Almost all districts of Sumba has its own kind of dance. There is a special dance that is danced by women, men, or a mix of both.
For example in Sumba Barat (West Sumba) there are 2 famous dances; Woleka and Kataga. Woleka is a dance performed by a group of women to celebrate the homecoming of the battlefield heroes. The leader of the dancing group needs to sing a rhyme. These days, Woleka is also performed in wedding ceremonies.
Whilst, Kataga is a war dance performed by a group of men expressively and full of energy. Kataga dance always receives special attention from anyone who watch this dance. With typical rhythm of the gong, cheers, yells and pounding sound of the Sumba shield make the audience stunned. Kataga is always performed by a minimum of 6 people.
In East Sumba regency, there are some other famous dances such as Kandingangu dance which in the ancient times were performed in traditional ceremonies to invoke the presence of the universe's creator (the Gods). But in the present, this dance is performed in every welcoming event for VVIP guests.
And just like in West Sumba, there is also a dance called Ningguharana that presented by men and women to welcome battlefield heroes. Nowadays, the dance is staged for homecoming party of the Pasola fighters who just come back from the battle.
In traditional villages of Sumba island, above dances can also be seen in some art dance studios.
Traditional dances of Sumba is generally accompanied by music from gongs and drums. But, what makes it very unique is beginning part of the dance is not determined by the sound of the music itself but by the tone of harmony felt by all dancers. As long as the rhythm sound of gongs and drums are not yet harmonious, dancers will remain silent. Very unique isn't it??
Sumbanese people believe that essential point of a dance performance is harmony between the dance movements itself and the music that accompanies.
The most commonly used musical instruments are gong (talla) and drum (beddu). Gong is generally made of brass or iron plate. Diverse in size between 30-50 cm in diameter, it's available in large size (in Sumba it is called talla pia) and some are small (called talla ana kouka). The most frequent use of gong music is for weddings and funerals. Accompanying the gongs is a drum called tambur. It is made of wood, about 50 cm in diameter with a horsehide head. It is played with a simple stick in the right hand and is dampened with the flat left hand.
In addition there are several other traditional instruments which unfortunately are now almost extinct; kasabba - a kind of cymbals made of iron plate, goga ama - a kind of short flute powered by using air in the mouth, talahe -- a hollow blown flute that uses one nostril while the other nostril closed. Another one is Ndungga -- a type of stringed instrument which based on the material divided into two types: ndungga roro (made of coconut shells and horsehair) as well as ndungga koba (made of coconut shell, boards and spun yarn).
As mentioned earlier, the traditional dances of Sumba was originally a part of worship, usually performed in Marapu rituals and Wulla Poddu ceremony. In several villages of Lamboya, Patiala, and Loli drums are beating all night long and the day after occurs the ceremony. Marapu rituals are performed by a rato, women dance and a kind of sorcerer wearing a mask amuse or frighten the audience. The dance to worship the ancestors is called Herung Laba. This dance is performed by a man reciting poems whilst beating a tambur (drum). But today, Herung Laba is a kind of dance for young people in finding a mate and is transformed into playful dance.
Besides performed in traditional villages in Sumba, the dances are often performed in National or International scale tourism exhibitions. Even the famous Kataga dance is regularly staged in Taman Ismail Marzuki -- an art and cultural center located in Jakarta. This is how the Sumba local government keeps all traditions of Sumbanese people alive in the midst of technological advances. The next generation should be well-informed about their ancestors traditions i.e. ritual ceremonies, art, dances.
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