Mentawai Etrhnic

Meentawai Ethnic

The Tattoo's of Mentawai ethnic

Mentawai Ethnic is a group of people who live andd settle in the mentawai island, West Sumatra.
Hereditary, Mentawai ethnic live in four major island in the Mentawai Island Sibora, Siberut, North Pagai, and south Pagai. 
Geographically, the location of the Mentawai islands fac the ocean Hindia, and the distrinctive tradition of Mentawai Ethnic is the use of tattoos all over his body, which is related to the role and social status users.
Generally, Mentawai ethnic simple life in "Uma".
Uma is a house made of wood and the architecture is shaped stage.
Simplicity of live the Mentawai ethnic seen from thee way they dress. In general, traditional clothing still Mentawai ethnic.
Mentawai Men still wear "Kabit", the lower body cover which is only made from the bark, while the upper body was left naked by without a pice of cloth. 
"Sikerei", elders in the Mentawai still wearing "Kabit", as with the women to cover the body, they use the banana leaf like a skirt. as the upper body, they use the palm leaf like a shirt.
Only a few Mentawai's people who wear cloth gloves or clothes.
There isn't mountains in Mentawai island, only hills whose height doesn't exceed 500 meeters.
Mentawai islands is also famous for the virgin's forests, and in the forests there are many small rivers, and the most common the river's is use to transportation of mentawai people.