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 ...

The Toraja people of southern Sulawesi ... cleaned and left in the sun to dry before being dressed in new clothes. Families gather at the cemetery during a ma’nene’ ritual in Pangala.

Dina collaborated with Dinny Jusuf, the businesswoman behind Toraja ... of the dress. Many other designs did not use lurik at all, but judging from the ones that did, Musa transformed traditional ...

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 ...

The Toraja people of Indonesia often don't bury ... death the soul remains in the house so the dead are treated to food, clothing, water, cigarettes. Their skin and flesh are preserved from ...

Some wear sunglasses and jeans, others delicately beaded white satin dresses and ... For centuries the Toraja were virtually cut off from the rest of the world. Their traditional religion, Aluk ...

Residents around Indonesia’s North Toraja regency on Sulawesi island have ... and then change the clothes.” The remains are then put back in their resting place one or two days before their ...

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 ...

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 ...