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prince Umbu Dingu ordered a 16-tons stone to cover the tomb of his father Reda Ana Buni. This stone slab was manually pulled by about 400 men from the quarry to the village on tree trunk rollers. The complete process of negociations, extraction, paring, transport over some 5 kilometers (3.1 mi)
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Wainyapu, a Kodi village, has some 1,400 dolmens — one of the highest concentrations on Sumba. This island is the last place on Earth where some cultures still follow the traditions of the
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The Kodi are one of the 24 ethnic groups that inhabit Sumba. On that island coexist nine
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