The island is famous for its sandalwood, handicrafts and art particularly its best quality of textile ikat weaving and the fame Hingi ikat. Most design of ikat dominantly covered by bold human figures and animals. This oval shaped island is worthy to be named as the island of the ancestral spirits due the island has been the greatest concentration of two-thirds of those who worship to the ancestral spirits in their traditional belief of Merapu and practices incredible tribal rituals such like Pasola – a kind of event showing masculine bravery where hundred horsemen fling spear each other. This ritual is still practiced nowadays once a year and the local government allow it with strict condition that the spear must be blunt. Another ritual is the funeral with the ceremony of pulling stone as the process of building up a giant megalithic tomb followed by pigs or buffalo slaughtering.