PUPPET HEAD ( SI GALE-GALE )

Dance performances Puppet Sigale-Gale has been very rare. The number of dolls Sigale-Gale said to live a few. It’s not easy to make. There is a belief in the Batak people who Sigale-Gale doll makers must surrender his soul on a homemade wooden dolls to dolls that can move like live.

How is this mystical show up embedded in Batak society? Fortunately, to this day Sigale-Gale has not extinct at all. There are still a few remaining statues are carved out decades ago. We can still see remnants of a very rare occurrence though.

If you want to watch traditional performances direct from Tanah Batak, go to Samosir. Reportedly there are four places that could mempertontonkannya there. Two of them are within easy reach are the tourist attraction and museum Simanindo Tomok Hutabolon. Visitors can book directly demonstrate Sigale-Gale for a fee.

Visitors who want to watch it without limitation of the number and age. Sometimes two or three people who are interested in, such as tourists, may request the employer to immediately play a show with musical accompaniment gondang Batak eight to ten dancers and escort.

Dance puppet show Sigale-Gale is very interesting and entertaining atmosphere. Imagine, a doll made of wood could dance like humans. It looks like a human if more attention. Doll is one-half feet high given the Batak traditional costumes. In fact, all the movements that appeared during the show to create the impression of a human model example.

His head can be rotated to the right and left side, eyes and tongue move, hands move like a human hand and dancing can reduce the lower body like dancing when squatting. And all that movement just above the coffin, where she kept the doll Sigale-Gale after displayed or played.

Why did it happen? Of course two or three people behind it in the back by pulling the rope line anatomically. First legendary puppeteer, Sigale-Gale played by one puppeteer. Last-known puppeteer is King of the village Garoga Rumahorbo Gaius, Tomok.

He has appeared at festivals in Siantar Sigale-Gale (Simalungun) in the 1930s. Instead, it was reported Sigale-Gale who played at that time was the result itself. Gaius King is known for making Sigale Gale tear-shedding and have the ability to wipe ulos (woven Batak), replace the previous wooden doll’s shoulder. Tears came out of course the water that flows from the head-toned hollow Sigale.

But how technical it is still difficult to imagine, because it is usually filled with a damp cloth or a small container that fits in a hole in it. Rumahorbo heir Gaius King said, Sigale-Gale who played at the festival is now in the Netherlands. One doll, still in heirs, located in Jakarta. Indeed, the National Museum of the Batak culture in a special section was never told to save the statue Sigale-Gale.