The house of an indigenous chieftain from the Nias tribe.

~ Photograph by Zainal Lembang | 1976, Pulau Nias, North Sumatra.

Main structures made of Eusideroxylon zwageri [pokok belian].

In the Nias language, the Nias people are known as Ono Niha; which literally means ‘descendants of human’. While Nias island is known as Tanö Niha, where Tanö means ‘land’ in the Nias language.