Alor is a district located in the most eastern islands of NTT in the northern region. Adjacent to the Province of Maluku, Savu Sea, Flores Sea and the western strait Ombai, this district has several small islands, Pantar, Baranusa, goat, crocodile, Tereweng.
Size Alor regency 2864.6 km2 island of Alor natural condition is quite different from the group of islands of Flores and Lembata Adonara fertile with volcanoes. Except for a small area of East Alor sebur.
Alor Island has long been known through the writings of Pigafetta in the Magellan voyage around the world. After gathering the spices in the Moluccas, the ship sailed back to Victoria with a stop in Alor Europe on January 12, 1522. When the majority of coastal residents have embraced Islam because of contact with the Sultan of Ternate.
Alor society initially established based on a set of core family / tiba consisting of father, mother, children, who traditionally choose where to live apart in separate but one big clan in a deep valley, or atop a mountain or hill slopes dilereng.
This set is eventually formed Bala or a small clan that is an extension of the nuclear family. Several Bala form a larger clan based on the father offspring in one traditional house.
Difficult to separate the role of moko and large belis Alor in public life, especially in marriage. Social function in Alor moko with ivory in Flores, East Flores in particular. Moko Alor Nekara belong to type Pejeng (Gianyar / Bali). Essentially oval shapes such as a drum, there is a large drum-shaped. . There is also kind of decoration that moko is the result of production in the Dutch East Indies era, Hindu, Indonesia before independence.
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