Burial on Sumba

We went to the Indonesian Island of Sumba to find and attend a funural, and succeded. The Sumbanese has some unique burial traditions, which you don't find anywhere else in the world. They are making tombs out of large monolits carved out of sandstone. The lid on the tombe is lifted and the body slided inside in the small chamber. The ritual is selebrated by a feast of meat, at the funural at hand, an old vise man, a Raku, had died, and 3 bulls were slaughtered, the meat being distributed to ...
Author: davidudbjorg; Tags: Funural Burial rituals Raku Sumba monoliths udbjorg ixtland




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