and redressed in their new clothing, Video footage from Liang Lo'ko' Kuku, a small town where Toraja people live, showed them crowding aroun stone graves and traditional Toraja tombs and digging ...

They believe that after death the soul remains in the house so the dead are treated to food, clothing ... the traditional elders (Ne 'Tomina Lumba) will recite prayers in the ancient Toraja ...

in its book Traditional Ceremonies of Southern Sulawesi [1861-1982], there are various viewpoints on how the name Torajan was derived: 1. The Toraja name is from “To-Riaja”, meaning people [To ...

Earlier this month, hundreds of people in South Sulawesi joined in celebrating traditional Indonesian dances during the annual Toraja cultural festival. Toraja is an indigenous group in the ...

But the Toraja believe that a person is only dead ... They sit alongside wooden dolls in traditional clothing, representing deceased nobility, while some bodies are kept in coffins that hang ...

Family members clean relatives’ preserved remains in Lembang today (Picture: Andri Saputra/AFP) A ceremony has been held which sees families dress ... traditional ceremony allows for the Toraja ...

NORTH TORAJA, (Indonesia): A family on an Indonesian ... "We all gather, work together, clean (the bodies) and then change the clothes." Coffins holding the preserved bodies of loved ones are ...