Naked Girl Mentawai Tribe

Stories about the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, is not only a matter of natural beauty and the waves challenging peselancar. Not only a matter of primate endemic forests and the environment Biosphere world, a world lungs. Many things, if we pull out, is quite interesting to watchMentawai Islands actually have 322 large and small islands, but has recorded 25 inhabited islands. Four large islands is the island of Siberut Island, Sipora, Pagai Island, North Island and South Pagai. Administratively, the islands wide 6011.35 square km is divided into four districts, namely Subdistrict Pagai North, South Sipora Sub-district, sub district Siberut, North and South Siberut Subdistrict.

Only in South Siberut, North Siberut, and we can find the original Mentawai tribes. Whereas in other places generally migrants who came from various regions, both from the Province of West Sumatra and North Sumatra Province, particularly in Nias.

However, some villages where people living Mentawai tribes can be achieved only by walking around 4-5 kilometers, or motorcycle-taxi ride motorcycles, such as the Village Maileppet, Puro, and the Village Muntei.

Even in terms of geographical position as a group, the Mentawai traditional culture is very different. Ady Rosa, according to researchers from the State University of Beirut, there are dozens of kinds of tribes in the Mentawai different one another difference, but there is also the same.

"Traditional Culture in the Mentawai Islands, both in terms of technology, social, religious and, in some places, even to this day still appeared to exist Neolithic (stone young era)," he said.

He said that the conservatism of the strange existence in the Mentawai culture is to attract the attention of the people who came there in the 18th century. Their great surprise when people realize that the Mentawai reveal more similarity with a population of the islands Hawaii, Tahiti, Polynesian Islands and the other located in the far east.