🐎 Culture · Sumba

Pasola and the living culture of Sumba. February or March, on dates set each year by Marapu elders and confirmed only a few days ahead.

West Sumba

The open field where Wanokaka holds the Pasola, a ritual contest in which riders throw blunt wooden spears at each other on horseback.

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