Anakalang

Anakalang is a village area (desa) and a small kingdom in the western part of Sumba island, in eastern Indonesia.

[2] It includes the traditional village of Pasunga (just off Waibakul)[2] In 1880, Umbu Dongu Ubini Mesa became the first raja of Anakalang.

In 1927, Umbu Sappy Pateduk succeeded to the title[5] and was raja until 1953, gathering much power through multiple strategic marriages.

[11] Sumba island is the last place on Earth where some cultures still follow the traditions of the hill tribes of South-East Asia and commonly build megaliths such as dolmens for collective graves.

These tombs are more frequent in the west part of Sumba,[13] inhabited by segmentary societies made of clans and of politically autonomous villages.

[3] Some 1 km south of the main road from Pasunga, is the traditional village of Kabunduk (Kabonduk)[17] where new and old is mixed.

[4] The largest megalithic grave in Sumba is in Gallubakul, about 3.5 km south of Pasunga:[18][17] chiseled out of a single rock, it took six years to create and is known as the Umba Saola tomb.

It was pulled from the hill slope where it was carved over a distance of 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) to the grave site in Anakalang.