SELAMAT DATANG

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Sabtu, 02 Februari 2013

WEST SUMBA TRADITIONAL HOUSE

Uma Bokulu, Home Typical Sumba
Uma Bokulu, Rumah Khas Sumba
  • Uma Bokulu, Home Typical Sumba

Do you know what the name of the custom house Sumba? Some say, uma bokulu meaning big house. There is also a saying that means uma mbatangu bermenara home.
Both are true, because both bokulu and uma uma mbatangu stage refers to the typical Sumba the towering roof of the tower. Uma bokulu was built in the village customs.
uma bokulu
Uma bokulu in indigenous villages Wainyapu, District Kodi, West Sumba. Photo: Ricky Martin.
While the shape of the house outside the village peoples generally not bermenara. The house is not bermenara called uma kumudungu or home bald.
Uma roof's peak bokulu high. Height of about 20 feet or more. No wonder tourists tower called him home.
Uma bokulu shaped house on stilts. The house is built of natural materials. Floor and frame of bamboo. The roof of thatch grass or hay.
Strength building is situated on 4 main pillars in the form of a giant sized logs called kambaniru ludungu. In the vicinity there are 36 main pillars supporting pillar called kambaniru.
Uma Bokulu built work together through a series of ceremonies. To build a big house is not used nails, but with the cable. When installing the thatch roof, they should not be a meal break before closing the roof is completed.
Uma Bokulu Uniqueness is a conical form ridges called uma store. In it there is a room that is used as a granary for storing seeds, food, and heirlooms.
The floor on the stage is an open residential space called bei uma. At the center of the room, in between the 4 main pillars used as a kitchen. Placed in front of the kitchen table. In front of the table was the porch where fathers deliberation.
On the home page, it is usually fitted with buffalo horn or tusk pigs. This as evidence that homeowners have cut cattle. Also as a sign of the owner of the house is an important person in society.
peta sumba
Sumba Island
Living in uma bokulu very comfortable and not hot because the air flows through the cracks of floors and bamboo walls.
The floor is also no need to be swept and mopped, because in between the bamboo sticks arranged logs into the floor, there are loopholes that the dust and dirt fell to under the house.
Under the house called time kabunga. Usually used to store firewood and cattle pens.
Sumba typical custom home is still maintained its authenticity. The houses are thatched tower can be encountered in traditional villages, such as Wainyapu, Ratenggaro, Tarung, Waitabar, Lamboya, Wanokaka, and others.
Want to Sumba? Sumba is located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara

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