toraja traditional clothes

Toraja traditional clothes

Toraja people mostly live in a valley between high mountains and rugged granite cliffs. This corresponds to the Toraja word that comes from the coast "to" meaning people and "Riaja" meaning highland. Toraja culture in general is a Malay Proto Austronesian civilization that is still well up to now. Custom clothing Torajanese called Pokko dress' for women, while men in traditional clothing in Toraja called Seppa tallung. The dominant color for traditional clothes are red, white, and yellow. There is also Kandore, which is the Toraja traditional dresses with decorative beads to decorate the chest, wristbands, headbands and belts.