5 MULTIPLE ARTS IN BATAK TOBA CULTURE

Toba Batak Ethnic is one of many ethnic groups who live in North Sumatra Province. Ethnicity that inhabits a relatively wide area, starting from the shores of Lake Toba and Samosir Island, to the highlands of Silindung and Pahae, has a unique culture with an interesting variety of arts. Enough, Toba Batak Culture is getting a lot of attention, both by academics and tourists.

Various arts, ranging from dance, music, crafts, literary arts, to fine arts, live together in the customs and religious side of the Toba Batak people. All traditional arts are part of their lives, even today. Although the world has developed more modern, the variety of traditional arts can still survive, even become an important part in the world of tourism.

The tourists who visit Lake Toba and the surrounding areas, are not only to witness the nature that has the region. However, they are also interested in enjoying the community and traditional communities in the Toba Batak community. To find out more, here is a discussion of the five types of art that live and continue to survive in the Toba Batak Culture order.

Dance

Tortor dance is one of the most prominent arts in the Toba Batak community. Manortor (dancing, Toba Batak language) is a symbol of gratitude to Mulajadi Nabolon, the creator god of the universe, and the sense of hula-hula in their family concept. Therefore, rates are usually done in ritual ceremonies, or in traditional ceremonies, such as weddings.

Music Art

musical instruments, also become part of the implementation of ritual and ceremonial ceremonies in the Toba Batak project. Two types of musical ensembles, gondang sabangunan and gondang hasapi are traditional musical instruments that are most often played. According to the Toba Batak ethnic mythology, the two instruments belonged to Mulajadi Nabolon, the Province had to submit to Convey to the god.

Art of Crafts

Martonun, or training in making ulos kais with traditional looms, is one of handicrafts in the traditional Toba Batak tradition, which until now can still be found in the interior of Samosir Island and other surrounding areas around Lake Toba. The Toba Batak community carried out various craft arts according to their roles and functions in the customary and religious structures they believed.

Literature Art

There are many literary arts that develop in the life of the Toba Batak community, including oral literature and literary writing. A variety of folklore, as determined by Lake Toba and Batu Gantung, become residents that we can still hear today. The rhymes called umpasa also exist in the Toba Batak problem, which is the ethnic wisdom of the local people. All literary art that has philosophical meaning in their lives.

Art

Sculpture and cherry art are the main goals in the Toba Batak. The carvings which contain gorga or their traditional house ornaments, are evidence of the beauty of the art of the Toba Batak people. Meanwhile, traditional paintings can be seen from many traditional tools, such as sior and hujur (arrow), losung gaja (big mortar), and parpagaran and sigale-gale.

All types of traditional arts in the Toba Batak culture are incorporated into an integral part of their lives. They continue to keep it alive in the order of customs and religious life of the community. That also becomes an attraction in the world of tourism, which is a tool for foreign tourists, who have never seen it.

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