page_title: Minahasan people
section_title: Dance
hierarchical_section_title: Minahasan people / Culture / Dance
caption_attribution_description: English: A Kabasaran war dance, performed at a parade. Tomohon, kabasaran
context_page_description: The Minahasans are an ethnic group native to the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia, formerly known as North Celebes. The Minahasa people sometimes refer to themselves as Manado people. Despite the fact that the Minahasan pre-Christian creation myth entails some form of ethnic unification, before the nineteenth century the Minahasa region was in no way unified. Instead, a number of politically independent groups existed together, often in a permanent state of war.
  Minahasans are the most populous ethnic group in the Minahasan peninsula of North Sulawesi. They are a Christian-majority region in a country with a Muslim majority. The indigenous inhabitants of Minahasa are Austronesian people who are the descendants of earlier migrations from further North. Prior to contact with Europeans, people living in the Minahasan peninsula primarily had contact with inhabitants from North Maluku and with Chinese and Malay traders from within the Indonesian archipelago. From the 1500s onwards, the region had contact with the Portuguese and Spanish.
context_section_description: Kabasaran is the fierce and famous Minahasan wardance which reminds of the old Minahasa warrior societies. The dancers wear red garments which in the old times was a color exclusive for the accomplished headhunter. This dance is similar to the Moluccan Cakalele wardance.
  Another famous dance is the katrili dance that’s still widely performed in minahasa. The katrili dance is originally a Portuguese folk dance and was adopted into minahasan society. The dancer would use a European style ball dress for the ladies and usually a formal European attire for the men, usually consisting of a plain shirt a vest dress or dancing shoes and a wide brimmed hat (a fedora or a slouch hat).
caption: A Kabasaran war dance, performed at a parade, 2006
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