traditionMentawai titi
titi · Mentawai
Lines following the body, put on across a life
Andrian salis · CC BY-SA 4.0| Where it goes | arms, chest, back, legs, hands |
|---|---|
| Notes | Put on in stages through a life rather than in one commitment. |
| Ink | Soot and water |
about 1,850 – 2,026 · Still carried by elders on Siberut
-1.4000, 99.0000 · OpenStreetMap
What it is
The Mentawai islands, west of Sumatra: long lines laid along arms, chest and legs, added to at each stage of a life.
The long version
Inference — the Mentawai case is the clearest example of a pattern this site keeps meeting: a tradition is called dying for a century and is still there, thinner, with the elders carrying it and the state having spent decades discouraging it.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Mentawai people — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Mentawai people — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there