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Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Culture of North Sumatera

Art Traditional Culture of the Province of North Sumatra. North Sumatra has a rich repertoire of diverse cultures. Cultural areas of North Sumatra include customs, traditional arts, and local languages​​.

In North Sumatera Province, there are several tribes inhabiting the province of which are ethnic Malays, Nias tribe, Toba Batak tribe, tribal Pakpak, Karo, Simalungun, Central Tapanuli, South Tapanuli tribe consisting of Sipirok tribe, tribal Angkola, Padang Alternating, and Mandailing , however there are also newcomers such as interest Minang, Javanese and Acehnese. These newcomers bring the culture and customs of each.

North Sumatera Cultural Art

Music of North Sumatra region

Just as the culture of other regions in North Sumatra Indonesia also have the music typical of the region of South Sumatra. The music is usually played in North Sumatra was hanging with ceremonies held in North Sumatra. That characterizes the music of drums are there. Like for example on Ethnic Coastal has a series of instruments that call Sikambang.

North Sumatera Cultural Dances

Having a wide variety of traditional dance that is divided some sort. There are nuances of the magical form of sacred dance, but there is also a nature to be a form of dance entertainment profane. This type of traditional dance of North Sumatra is part of the ceremonies, while the sacred dance is usually danced by plaintive-datu.

Some of the dances that came from North Sumatra is a dance Tortor, morah-morah, parakut, sipajok, plate-plate often and kebangkiung, tortor nasiaran, single panaluan tortor.

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