"Not Today" (A story of survival and spirit)
Savunese Warrior
Sumba is known throughout Indonesia as one of the last untouched place in the archipelago that the old animistic and monarch ways are still prevalence; it is also a place of warriors.
For us spearfishermens it is the place for fish, but there is a catch, the place is so rural that to even organize a boat will take you a week in which we didn’t have the time, so our one week there we had to enter by land, doing it the Sumba way!
On my first day arriving there I came across a local spearfishermen his name is Manase, he came from the neighboring small island of Savu he has been living in Sumba almost his entire life.
He limps his way towards me, with a sturdy yet certain kind of terror in his eyes he introduced himself, he is of average height for Savunese ; 5’6, 55kgs , rather kind of skinny and dark skin. After a brief introduction he started showing me his wounds on both his arms, elbows , from the waist down to his inner thigh in between his crouch, and all the way down to his calf.:186 sticthes later and bags of blood transfusion the warrior in him fought for his life.
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Savunese Warrior
Sumba is known throughout Indonesia as one of the last untouched place in the archipelago that the old animistic and monarch ways are still prevalence; it is also a place of warriors.
For us spearfishermens it is the place for fish, but there is a catch, the place is so rural that to even organize a boat will take you a week in which we didn’t have the time, so our one week there we had to enter by land, doing it the Sumba way!
On my first day arriving there I came across a local spearfishermen his name is Manase, he came from the neighboring small island of Savu he has been living in Sumba almost his entire life.
He limps his way towards me, with a sturdy yet certain kind of terror in his eyes he introduced himself, he is of average height for Savunese ; 5’6, 55kgs , rather kind of skinny and dark skin. After a brief introduction he started showing me his wounds on both his arms, elbows , from the waist down to his inner thigh in between his crouch, and all the way down to his calf.:186 sticthes later and bags of blood transfusion the warrior in him fought for his life.
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