TY - JOUR AU - Mithen Lullulangi, AU - Onesimus Sampebua, AU - Rahmansah, AU - Armiwaty Tawani, AU - Raeny Tenriola, PY - 2021/02/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE TRADITIONAL FUNCTION OF TONGKONAN IN SILLANAN TANA TORAJA JF - PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology JA - J Arch.Egyptol VL - 18 IS - 4 SE - DO - UR - https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/6778 SP - 3174-3185 AB - <p>Location of this research is in&nbsp;Lembang&nbsp;Sillanan,&nbsp;Gandangbatu&nbsp;District, Tana Toraja Regency. The aim is to find out which&nbsp;Tongkonans&nbsp;functioned&nbsp;adat, and their respective roles in the past. This type of research, is qualitative research. The research activities for data collection, were carried out by observation and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;interviews with the head of&nbsp;Lembang&nbsp;Sillanan&nbsp;as a community leader, the guard of the old traditional village of&nbsp;Sillanan&nbsp;as a customary spokesperson,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and community leaders who still adhered to the beliefs of&nbsp;Aluk&nbsp;Todolo.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Data analysis technique is qualitative analysis, which is data collection, data presentation, data reduction, and make conclusions. The results showed that the&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;group in the traditional village of&nbsp;Sillanan&nbsp;consisted of: 1)&nbsp;&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;Karua&nbsp;(eight&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;functioned as&nbsp;&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;Layuk&nbsp;or&nbsp;Pesiok&nbsp;Aluk); 2)&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;A'pa’&nbsp;(Four&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;as partners of&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;Karua; 3) Three special functions&nbsp;Tongkonan; 4)&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;Tumpu&nbsp;as many as 21 pieces as technical&nbsp;implemented&nbsp;to help carry out the task of&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;Pesio’ Aluk; and 5)&nbsp;Tongkonan&nbsp;Patulak&nbsp;or&nbsp;Tongkonan Batu A’riri&nbsp;as supporters of the&nbsp;Sillanan&nbsp;traditional government which&nbsp;is inhabited by the&nbsp;public.</p> ER -