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Mourners carry a red silk banner over their heads as they walk ahead of the coffin at a funeral ceremony in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Sulawesi, Tana Toraja

A faded photograph looks like a ghost haunting a family tomb in Bori’ Parinding, Tana Toraja, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, Bori’ Parinding, ghost portrait

Three teenage boys change their dead grandfather’s clothes during a macabre death ritual in the highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, ma’nene ritual

Two roosters battle in a remote village in the mountains of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja

A row of human skulls in Bori’ Parinding in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, Bori’ Parinding

The corpses of a father and son are exhumed during a death ritual in the highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, ma’nene ritual

A young man and his dead grandfather join a video chat in the highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, ma’nene ritual

A man in the remote highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia, moves the skulls of his grandparents from their tomb to a newly built mausoleum near his village.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, ma’nene ritual

A man removes the body of his dead grandmother from her grave in the highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, ma’nene ritual

Cans of Coca-Cola are left as gifts for the dead in a burial site behind Palawa village in Tana Toraja.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, Palawa village

Behind each of the ragged panels on this ancient tree trunk is the grave of a dead child - a custom in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, Kambira

Rows of life-sized death effigies or tau-tau stare from manmade holes in a rock face. This is Lemo, Tana Toraja’s most famous burial site.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, Lemo

Tau-tau statues in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesa.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, tau-tau statues

A circle of male mourners sways and sings at a funeral ceremony in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.

Indonesia, Sulawesi, Tana Toraja

A skull in a burial cave in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesa.

Indonesia, Tana Toraja, Londa funeral cave

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