Sabtu, 15 Oktober 2011

si gale-gale is wonders on the island samosir


si gale-gale is wonders on the island samosir


Si Gale-gale, the name of a wooden doll that can be moved to dance. This wooden doll we can see Samosir Island, Lake Toba, North Sumatra. Unique shape with traditional Batak clothing embedded in its body. Gale-gale's doll is a child nobility (King Island Samosir). This royal child was dead and her parents would not willingly with her son's departure so that they make a replica of the children to entertain themselves. The wooden dolls made in such a way that can be driven from behind by someone. The movement occurs because of the arms and head strap connected to hidden so that a rope that moves the Gale-gale equal to the amount of veining in human hands. Si Gale-gale could be dancing alone with musical accompaniment of traditional Batak. The Gale-gale doll also is decorated with traditional motifs are carved with images Batak lizard.
The puppets dance performances gale-gale is very rare. amount of the gale-gale doll was said to live a few. Not easy to make. There is a belief in Batak society that the doll maker's gale-gale should surrender his soul to her doll can look like live. Fortunately, to date the gale-gale doll yet extinct, we can see a puppet show in the gale-gale samosir island, North Sumatra precisely in hutabolon tomok and in museums in the area of ​​lake toba Simanindo Siantar.

Visitors can book directly show the gale-gale with a certain fee. Visitors who want to watch it was not in limiting the number and age. Sometimes two or three foreign tourists often ask employers to play a puppet show of the Game-gale to the accompaniment of music gondang hobo, and accompanied by some dancers tradisona Batak dance tor-tor. Doll whose height reaches one meter in traditional costumes give the Batak. In fact all his movements that emerged during the show to create the impressions of the human model example. His head can swivel to the left and right, eyes and tongue can move and can reduce lower body such as the squat time dancing. In need of two or three masterminds behind him for shaking the gale-gale doll by pulling on the anatomical pathways.






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