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Land, and so used the term Mandailing. Today, the Mandailing is also known outside their communities who because they
live in Perak, Selangor, and Pahang. Beside that, the societies of Mandailing has many areas, the are : Angkola Jae, Angkola Julu, Batang Toru, Sipirok, Padang Lawas,
Sipiongot, dan Saipardolokhole and also the Sidimpuan societies.the Mandailing is one of the tribes that ethnic is not different from other tribes.
2.1.2. The Languages of Mandailing
The Mandailing is rich, including their own language of their own a Batak tongue and even writing similar to the Java and Bugis script . However, much of their culture
is no longer practiced, although endogamy is still farily common. It is similar to the Mandailing society, they have good or smooth sounds. A smooth tongue Mandailing
.the Mandailing society use the smooth tongue, it is can look at their words or how they use their language for the other people. Therefore, the Mandailing society well known
as the smooth people. Once a meeting site for Malay dignitaries, British officials and the Mandailing,
this huge mansion today stand empty and lonely next to a rooting timber mosque. Whatever glory Perak’s oldest tin-mining town used to boast of seem a relic of the past.
A decendant of Raja Bilah is however, determined to preserved the memory of Mandailing and promoted its historic value.
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2.1.3 The Art of Mandailing
As a really open area for visitor it is obvious that the influence of outer culture will easily enter this area. This influence is seen obviously on the nature of art inherited up to
the present. This doesn’t mean that the original form of their art has disappeared. The inheritance shows that some tribes, especially in the inlands still practice the art. The art
life in other areas, the birth and creation of art in North Sumatera contains magic religious and aesthetic aspects. These two values appear in all kinds of art. It was
around Samosir island and later its generation develop and spread everywhere in its surroundings. Nias tribes believes that their ancestors came from the most beautiful
heaven called ‘ Tetoholi Ana’a ‘, and went down to the Gomo areas in the middle part of Nias and later spread to all part of the island. Some of the Malayan tribes believe they
were originated from the descendants of Iskandar Zulkarnaen who came down on the hill of Siguntang in Palembang.
Nothing could fix the antecedents of the people of North Sumatera, however, according to the historical of the spreading of the tribes like the other Indonesian people
the ancestors were supposed to come from further India coming to this areas in groups. Therefore the people consist of all kinds of tribes developed by themselves in their own
areas. As the result of the pluralistic condition, art as a moral expression of the tribes, it
has its own various style and kinds. Like the various kinds of its tribes in North Sumatera there are all kinds of traditional arts, namely Malayan art, Batak Toba art,
Simalungun art, Karo art, Pakpak Dairy art, Angkola Mandailing art, Coastal and Nias art. These traditional arts have their own kinds, style and local characteristics.
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The influence of the older megalithic art is found in the cultural environment of the population of Mandailing. But the wedding ceremony in Mandailing as a art, they must
do the traditional party manortor with the music Onag-Onang in a good place, its called ‘gelanggang Paradaton ‘. All of the family of the groom and the king of the
wedding is to say some cultural speech in the party.
2.1.4 The Religious of Mandailing
