Portal:Indonesia/POTW/36, 2007



Uma is a traditional house of Mentawai people. Mentawai are the native people of Mentawai Islands, a group of islands off the west coast of Sumatra. They live semi-nomadic as a hunter–gatherer lifestyle throughout the island. Their population is estimated to be about 64,000.

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