Coffins on the Cliff Faces

Note the skulls and bones on the bottom right corner

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A Matter of Life and Death: Sulawesi Weddings and Torajan Funerals

June 5th 2009
In the first week of June, 2009, I arrived after a 37 hour journey to Makassar, in southern Sulawesi by a massive, overloaded Pelni ship. Thousands of people piled off, pushing and shoving their way, each one needing to be the first one down the narrow stairway onto the concrete pier below. I couchsurfed with a wonderful and kind guy in town and the night I chose to do so, I was invited to a fancy ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Sulawesi » Tana Toraja

The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more

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