custom wedding dress papua

State of Indonesia is very famous for its cultural diversity. With thirty-three provinces that inhabit the islands in Indonesia, can be said that the State of Indonesia is quite dense population and rich cultural diversity. Many customary procedure is quite interesting to note, among them a wedding dress every tribe or region.

Sacred marriage

Sacred marriage of a process is usually characterized by the clothes worn during the wedding procession was held. Especially the wedding procession that carried the theme of indigenous peoples. Usually its implementation very seriously prepared. Both in terms of governance the way, the procession of cultures, the dowry of his marriage, until the wedding dress.

All that is usually for a reason. Namely, that marriage is a great hunger for life that if I could only take place once all the way marriage is a person, including you.

Papua Customary Marriage

Broadly speaking Papuan customary marriage does not differ much with the marriage customs of other regions in Indonesia. It's just because of Papua at the time of the Old Order became the youngest province in the Republic of Indonesia, it is usually always seize the attention of all the good people of Indonesia's population in particular and the world's population in general.

Pernikhan indigenous Papuans are always colored by the uniqueness of local people who always express all the feelings and conditions of the atmosphere with dance. So Papuan customary marriage can not be separated from the dance-dance that started the beginning of a marriage, and also at the time of requesting the advice and blessing of the elder one in the custom.

The composition of the ceremony more or less like this:

   1. The bride family men and women waiting for the presence of the traditional elders, represented by ten Papuan men wearing yellow robes. They came to the wedding that was held while dancing and singing, accompanied by a wasp drum (tambour typical Papuan region).
   2. Behind the traditional elders, the long march of hundreds of parents, youth, children, men and women, while also dancing to the accompaniment of drums last - while walking on tiptoe, tiptoe.
   3. Both groups will then come pick up his bride and bridegroom led his bride and her family pick up while still dancing.
   4. Man carrying the bride family line all the precious treasure that will be used as a dowry, in the form of Chinese dishes, jars or ceramic Chinese. The three types of goods are the objects were commonly used as a dowry in the indigenous Papuans.
   5. All the entourage will stop running after hitting a home or residence of the bride's family.
   6. The next process is the advice and blessing to be led by traditional elders, followed by the wedding.

Of all the process all marked with the peculiarities indigenous Papuan dancing and singing that is accompanied by a drum beat - the Papua typical drum. Papuan dance is not as difficult as regional dances in Bali or Java. Broadly speaking Papuan dance more form-jingkatan jingkatan leg snapped in rhythm. Unpretentious but full of energetic.

Papuan Traditional wedding clothes

As for clothes or dress custom wedding Papua is equally exciting as the arrangement of wedding ceremony that was held. Usually the clothing that was used as a wedding dress will be divided into three kinds.

First, is the clothing worn by the traditional elders and religious. Next is the clothing worn by hundreds of people who come to enliven the ceremony. And last is the wedding dress worn by a pair of bride and bridegroom family.

    * Indigenous Elders and Religious Apparel

Imposed by the elders and religious customs are different. Indigenous elders typically use traditional clothes like the traditional Papuan penis gourds, bird of paradise feathers and ivory ornaments. While the Elders of Religion wearing a yellow robe and matching flannel uniform.

    * Wedding Apparel Society

Local people who became maid of the bride usually wears plain clothes. Because Islam is now in West Papua has been growing rapidly, so the more women wearing the hijab and their best clothes. Or if not, in general, wearing locally woven sarong topped with plain clothes or white clothes - which signifies purity.

    * Bride Wedding Dress

Clothing worn by the family of the bride usually still patterned plain. That is the best clothes they owned, and women still dressed by local-woven sarongs. While men still wear long pants despite ivory ornaments or pork, as well as decorative birds of paradise feathers in their headbands.

While the wedding dress worn by both bride is a white dress and white. Papuan people are like white color in the dress, this is a development that go hand in hand with time. Although they still like the festive colors and patterns typical of Papua, such as beads or ornaments of paradise feathers. The combination of colors used shades of color symbolized by birds of paradise feathers.