Walking With The Dead
Move!|October 18 2017

Indonesian tribe digs up bodies of dead relatives and takes a walk with them.

Walking With The Dead

AN INDONESIAN tribe literally believes in the ‘walking dead’ as they dig up the corpses of their relatives and friends, wash, groom and dress them up before walking with them for a good harvest

Every year, families in Toraja in the highlands of South Sulawesi, exhume the bodies of their dead relatives and friends to reunite with them in an annual celebration called Ma’nene.

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