A woman's bocah smiles so that it looks her ompong front teeth when a relative praises how beautiful herself after wearing makeup on her face and gincu halls on the lips. “Oiii, beautifully......”, so the praise of Grandma Wa Asa against the boss called Nadira.
Nadira is one of the hundreds of girls who will follow Karia in the Westa Kahedupa festival that takes place in Kaledupa Island, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
In the occasion, Kaledupa residents who have mostly living households outside the island, namely in Wangi-Wangi, Kendari, Buton, until Makassar returns the village brings as well as their children and wife to Kaledupa to follow Karia.
Nadira (7 th) walks forward to its large family home in Pajam Village, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
The relatives of women are busy mendandani girls to follow Henauka Wowine in Pajam Village, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
Karia celebration lasts two days. On the first day of Henauka Mo’ane and on the second day Henauka Wowine. Henauka Moa’ne is a celebration for the children who have been mastered, a camping arrogant to undergo a number of rituals including futa landa, hair scissors, and prayers. While Henauka Wowine is a ritual that women do. Henauka Wowine became a kind of celebration for girls who already did women's hearts, as well as celebrations for girls after the ping process.
In Henauka Wowine, there are two age classes that follow Karia, women in the categories of children and women who struck adult or "canddler" or have got menstruation.
The goal of Henauke Wowine is preparing a woman with a number of educational and awfulness of grandmothers for a lazy house.
Nadira (7 th) poses when photographed by his grandfather after completion was housed before the Henauka Wowine event in Pajam Village, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
Doraemon cartoon views in television located in the middle space in the village of Pajam, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
Before the last day Henauka Wowine, a woman who has "drink of toddler" is lit in eight to forty days. While girls undergo a hair shaving process or langgi.
In the morning before the event, girls will be alone like women who will be married and wear a combo shirt or traditional dress.
After the new woman is guided from home to the field by male relatives. Those who disguise the arak-arakans then scream the lego-lego. Lego-lego means we don’t get lost, philosophically meaning that every family who participated Karia is full among others by contributing food or earth results, making and decorating the dice.
The number of wall decorations from paper in Pajam Village, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
The early accumulation was then assembled and guided from home to the village of Sandi in Henauka Wowine in the village of Pajam, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
At the end of the event, a religious figure will smear the turmeric in the child, in the yellow and in the legs, then covered with prayer for the life of the girls in the future.
Photo and Text: Rosa Panggabean
The dipping or dipingit will trampl the first time foot to the earth in Henauka Wowine in the Password Village Court, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
The participants of Henauka Wowine sit together his companion relatives, namely mother and grandmother in Henauka Wowine in the village of Pajam, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
Peserta follow the procession of futa landa or smear turmeric in the legs, then it is carried out for the safety of his life in Henauka Wowine in the Password Village Court, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
Peserta drags his family in the event of Henauka Wowine in the Village of Password, Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
The women who "toddler" and have passed the pingitan process waiting to be guided from home to the sub-district field in Henauka Wowine in Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
Each village decorates a seat that will be used by the participants of Henauka Wowine in Kaledupa, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi.
