Tana Toraja Funeral

Asia
April 18th 2011

Published: May 4th 2011

Attending a funeral Ceremony at Tana Toraja is privilege one is fortunate to experience. Regardless of the status of the deceased as to how large the Ceremony is, it is certain to ignite all your senses and plant itself in your memory forever. I was lucky enough to be in Rentepao when a Funeral Ceremony was taking place for a Village noble. The funeral was an affair that went over a week however I... Read Full Entry

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almost there

under the rice barn

Little girls

These young ladies wear the tradtional clothes and are purely there for the family

so beautiful

looking through the curtain

the rice field in the distance

Christain funeral afterall

Symbolic Buffalo Horns

The Toraja House as adorned with Buffalo Horns. The more horns the more prestigious you are,

meat for all

Buffalo meat

The meat tower

All the meat was placed in the tower which will be later split between the villages

The crying pigs

I left after this. The crying of the pigs was too distressing for me. The buffalo seemed to be unaware of what was happening but the pigs knew exactly what fate layed ahead.