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The idea of an "origin house" in Manggarai is closely linked with the idea of an"origin village", a beo.60 Villages that are "origin villages"?beo, have a higher statusthan golo, those villages who have branched out from them and trace their origin to them.The same is true of houses; "origin houses" are higher in status than those houses whichhave branched from them, as the niang wowang in Todo village is higher in status thanthe eight other houses there that trace their origin to it. As an "origin village", a beo musthave an "origin house", commonly called a "drum house"?mbaru tembong, or mbarugendang, where the leader of the village lives and where the drums, which are an importantmeans of communication with the supernatural, are kept. On top of these houses isornamentation, often in the form of buffalo horns, differentiating them from other houses.61The beo must also have a compang, a sacred place in the center of the village consistingof a mound of stones and often a banyan tree, where sacrifices are made, offerings areplaced and where important dead are buried.
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