Ka Nua Tradition from Flores,NTT,Indonesia

Ka Nua,

These rituals are very rare. Besides implemented once and for all, this ritual is also the highest hierarchy in the manner customary banquet Bajawa.

A new village worthy of being part of life Bajawa tradition if it has been running this ritual. However, the stages that must be met may take decades. For example, at Pali Analoka, villages covering an area of 1,000 square meters with a population of 180 people it has 12 custom homes. The 12-custom homes it must first inaugurated with the ritual Ka Sao, there was a ritual Ka Nua.

Villages that was inaugurated by Ka Nua village called perfect. In customary tradition Bajawa described as sadho Inerie Leba Suru male. That is, perfection has been achieved of being able to reach the summit of Mount Inerie, the highest mountain in Bajawa.

The first show, is uma Moni (open new fields). Next nuka pare Wole Medo (take the harvest from the garden to the traditional house), and slope of Kada-colonial bhaga Raju Madhu (the inauguration of the mini houses in the village center which is a symbol laki-laki/ngadhu and female / bhaga). Then do the todo districts keri (cutting grass to signify the traditional house was inaugurated). Lastly, the ritual Roko eye (slaughtering buffalo as an offering to honor the ancestors).

Nua Ka scarcity raises concerns the implementation of the extinction of these traditional rituals.

Nua Ka also serves as a glue tribal kinship. In the ritual, those who live far away, like in Kupang, Sumba, Bali, Madura, Jakarta, Medan and even, will come to the village.

Their arrival was greeted with typical dances Bajawa, ja'i, to the accompaniment of local ethnic music called go (gong) income (drums). Ja'i dancers, both male and female, wearing a woven fabric complete with accessories, including fabric which crossed at the chest, long lace small bag.

The relatives who brought fruit in the form of an animal's hand when she reached the main door of Village Pali Analoka will perform sa ngasa, or cried the sentences about the importance of maintaining kinship, through stories.

When the buffalo will be deducted for banquets, performed rituals sau base, wetting accompanied by the machete with pig blood containing the request for prayer by mosalaki protection to the ancestors.