Beauty Pangkur Sagu, Whirlpool Dance Wrapped in Tradition – Sago as we know is the main food sources or a staple for the people of Eastern Indonesia in general. The efficacy of sago is very good as a source of carbohydrates with saturated fat very low. At the end of 2009 the trend of sago as a diet menu began to be known world.
As the staple food of the people of Maluku and Papua, sago can be processed into a variety of food delicacies that are not glued on one grip only. From snacks to full meals, the creation of sago processing is very varied and not only glued on the Papeda course.
Uniquely, the processing of sago from the making is a series of processes that become a uniqueness, which by the Papuan people, it becomes a creative and cultural rituals with the dance ‘Pangkur Sagu’.
Pangkur sagu is a manufacturing process from start to choose a sago tree that is old enough to be cut down, and then hulled. Sago palm stems that have been hulled and then pounded to shape rough wood. Rough wood that will be filtered by using the ‘Goti’.
What is ‘Goti’?
Goti is a sieve made of webbing from the sidelines of the sago tree. Sago filtered it is then mixed with water and squeezed out sari sago starch which is then deposited in Tumang made from the leaves of the sago tree.
A series of processes Pangkur Sagu is then told in a Ritual Dance Pangkur Sagu. This Ritual is usually performed by means of singing and dancing as simboli gratitude, mutual cooperation and togetherness. Although made at the time of harvest, Dance Pangkur Sagu also commonly done on the staging of the ceremony, as well as welcoming guests.
The Ritual Dance Pangkur Sagu staged or performed with the use of makeup white paint which comes from the lime shells. The whole body of the dancers are painted from the face to the feet that can be said to cover almost the entire surface of the skin.
Edo Kondologit, the singer from Papua ever told in a chic Ritual Pangkur Sagu is in the song in 1998. Thanksgiving to God Almighty for all his greatness, by way of singing and dancing.
Dance Pangkur Sagu become one of the dance displayed at the time the Minister of Youth and Sports Zainuddin Amali come review the implementation of the competition of artistic gymnastics.
Demanding to be displayed in an energetic, dance it turned out to be a dance that is devoted to welcome guests to the Earth of Paradise.
“This is indeed the typical dances of Papua, not only from the province of Papua but also West Papua,” said the Committee from the Field of Social and Cultural PON XX Papua Funds to the in-BETWEEN.
The fund said Pangkur Sagu is a dance which depicts the activities of the people of Papua approaches harvesting the farmers in the form of sago.
The dance depicts a symbolic ritual feast held the people of Papua at the time of making sago. Mutual aid, solidarity, and gratitude is the value that you want displayed in this dance.
The dance was first started by the male dancers of six people as a tool for menokok sago tree.
Shortly groups of female dancers with the same amount of joined to make the water sago has been obtained and processed to become sago.
A group of dancers that look very harmonious dance the dance as steeped in farming activities sago into the habits of the people of Papua.
This dance is increasingly felt very berkearifan local because the viewer that dancing is equipped with a costume that feels integrated with nature.
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