History of Wana in Sulawesi
World Tribe ~ Community deemed to be part of a large group Pamona or formerly known as group or Toraja Toraja Bare'e East. Wana spread over the base area of Central Sulawesi peninsula, between the bay and the Gulf of Tomini Poso. They stayed around Bongka River basin and its tributaries located in the hinterland of the District Ulu Bongka, North Bungku and Barone in Poso district. Total population is probably around 5,000 inhabitants.
history-tribal-wana
Language Wana
Wana Wana people use language, commonly called Ta'a language which reneges language that is still a part of the group language Pamona.
Livelihood Wana
Although it is still considered to be still alive culturally alienated Wana people actually keep in touch with the residents of the coast, especially to obtain goods from iron. To obtain these items, the Wana people trying to collect rattan, resin or metal timber to be sold and the money used to buy their needs of traders from the coast.
Their livelihood is farming are generally slash, burn and move if the fertility of land has been lost. Their field crops are rice, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, vegetables, coffee, bananas and a little coconut. In addition to gathering forest products they also hunt wild animals, deer, babirusa, monkeys, Maleo and others. They hunt with a blowgun toxic weapon called sopu, spears or traps.
Community Wana
These isolated communities living in small groups near their cultivated lands. The land near the settlement consists of 5-15 nuclear family. Usually each other there is close kinship. A household consists of one senior nuclear family is often accompanied by some close relatives as the unity of labor, because a field is done by the labor of about 5-10 adults and children who can assist light work. The most effective leadership in their social life is a figure called Tautua Lipu, a senior man who served as the head of the settlement, as well as a peasant leader and shaman (medicine man).
Religion and Belief Wana
Wana has long been associated with the coastal Muslim community, such as the Bugis, Mori, Ampana, Bajau and so forth. Therefore, most of them there is also a Muslim. There is also a kemudan Protestants were brought by an evangelist in Lemo, but who remain or return to the old belief too much. Wana is still their old beliefs that animism and dynamism assume that their religion older than Christianity, but younger than Islam (Since Islam came first?). Old belief Wana oriented to their supernatural powers and spirits that inhabit certain places. The place which they regard as a sacred area where the spirit dwells is Mount Tongku Tua (Tambosisi) which is about 2,500 meters.
References: Atkinson 1979
source from http://suku-dunia.blogspot.co.id/2015/03/sejarah-suku-wana-di-sulawesi.html
World Tribe ~ Community deemed to be part of a large group Pamona or formerly known as group or Toraja Toraja Bare'e East. Wana spread over the base area of Central Sulawesi peninsula, between the bay and the Gulf of Tomini Poso. They stayed around Bongka River basin and its tributaries located in the hinterland of the District Ulu Bongka, North Bungku and Barone in Poso district. Total population is probably around 5,000 inhabitants.
history-tribal-wana
Language Wana
Wana Wana people use language, commonly called Ta'a language which reneges language that is still a part of the group language Pamona.
Livelihood Wana
Although it is still considered to be still alive culturally alienated Wana people actually keep in touch with the residents of the coast, especially to obtain goods from iron. To obtain these items, the Wana people trying to collect rattan, resin or metal timber to be sold and the money used to buy their needs of traders from the coast.
Their livelihood is farming are generally slash, burn and move if the fertility of land has been lost. Their field crops are rice, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, vegetables, coffee, bananas and a little coconut. In addition to gathering forest products they also hunt wild animals, deer, babirusa, monkeys, Maleo and others. They hunt with a blowgun toxic weapon called sopu, spears or traps.
Community Wana
These isolated communities living in small groups near their cultivated lands. The land near the settlement consists of 5-15 nuclear family. Usually each other there is close kinship. A household consists of one senior nuclear family is often accompanied by some close relatives as the unity of labor, because a field is done by the labor of about 5-10 adults and children who can assist light work. The most effective leadership in their social life is a figure called Tautua Lipu, a senior man who served as the head of the settlement, as well as a peasant leader and shaman (medicine man).
Religion and Belief Wana
Wana has long been associated with the coastal Muslim community, such as the Bugis, Mori, Ampana, Bajau and so forth. Therefore, most of them there is also a Muslim. There is also a kemudan Protestants were brought by an evangelist in Lemo, but who remain or return to the old belief too much. Wana is still their old beliefs that animism and dynamism assume that their religion older than Christianity, but younger than Islam (Since Islam came first?). Old belief Wana oriented to their supernatural powers and spirits that inhabit certain places. The place which they regard as a sacred area where the spirit dwells is Mount Tongku Tua (Tambosisi) which is about 2,500 meters.
References: Atkinson 1979
source from http://suku-dunia.blogspot.co.id/2015/03/sejarah-suku-wana-di-sulawesi.html
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