Macassars
The Macassars or Makassar are an ethnic group in the south of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi . They also gave their name to the capital of the Makassar province . They speak the Makassar language , a language of the Austronesian language family .
From the 13th century they established several small kingdoms in the region. At the end of the 17th century they gradually fell under Dutch control. Your northern neighbors are the Bugis .
The culture of Makassar include those derived from a courtly tradition pakarena Dances in which two to eight women in deliberate movements to the lively rhythms of a ganrang acting ensembles consisting of Kegeloboe Puik-Puik , multiple barrel drums ganrang and a hanging gong is .
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- Makasar. Ethnologue.com