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This qualitative research aims to describe visual metafunction of multimodal text nabelken gelar in Karo ethnic and to describe intersemiotic relations between verbal and visual text of nabelken gelar. Data collecting technique was conducted by recording the ceremony of nabelken gelar, doing in-depth interviews with the chief of tribal council, observing the participants and collecting written documents from cultural books. Data reduction results presented in the form of description and pictures. Data were analyzed by using visual metafunction of Ideational, Interpersonal and Component of representation. Based on the description and analysis, data of multimodal text in nabelken gelar has (1) Ideational function such as Process (action, verbal, analytical, symbolic, and mental), Participant including Participant I (actor, carrier, goal, senser and sayer) and Participant II (goal, symbolic attributive, and utterance), and Circumstance (place); (2) Interpersonal function consists of contact (demand and offer), social distance (intimate dan equality), and point of view (viewer power and represented participant power); (3) Textual function consists of information values (centred and new), salience (the contrast colours in ethnic clothes of father and mother, mat and Jambur tent border and also framing. Both verbal and visual texts in nabelken gelar contain messanges. Logic lntersemiotic relations between verbal and visual texts in transferring the meaning of multimodal text in nabelken gelar consist of repeating, comparative, additive, consequential (consequence and contingency).