People of Sumatra #11: Toikot, Mentawai shaman-elder of Siberut Island

Blog – Rolf Potts
13/02/2019
People of Sumatra #11: Toikot, Mentawai shaman-elder of Siberut Island

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I met Toikot on Siberut, the largest island in the Mentawai Archipelago, off the western coast of Sumatra. Toikot is 78 years old. Like most Mentawai men his hair has remained jet-black into old age, and his lean, ropy muscles would put even Iggy Pop to shame. His full-body tattoos mark him as a shaman,…

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