File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het verslepen van de steen 'Darodaro' voor de gestorven Saoenigeho van Bawamataloea Nias TMnr 1000095b.jpg
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| current | 09:18, 3 January 2017 | | 3,180 × 2,580 (5.07 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Repronegative. Big stones (megaliths), some nicely decorated, were a part of the culture of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nias" class="extiw" title="en:Nias">Nias</a> island off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. There were big stone statues, stone seats for the chieftains and stone tables where justice was done. There were also big stones needed to commemorate of important deceased people. When such a stone was erected, a ritual feast was to be given. All this to enable a nobleman to join his godly ancestors in the afterlife. On the photo such a stone is hauled upwards. The story has it that it took 525 people three days to erect this stone in the village of Bawemataloeo. (P. Boomgaard, 2001) |
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