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Indonesian has actually started annual celebration of honouring the dead which sees numerous centuries-old remains exhumed, worn garments as well as place on screen, Daily mail reports.
The event is a yearly celebration where maintained bodies of forefathers of the Toraja, an ethnic team from the hills of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, are adoringly collected from their tombs as component of the old Ma’nene festival. Then, the bodies are groomed, washed and dressed in fashionable new clothes and even sunglasses before they are paraded round the village. The locals hold the festival in high esteem.
They consider funerals the most important event of their lives, the festival is a celebration.
Photographer Herman Morrison made the trip from Indonesian island Lombok, where he lives, to capture the peculiar ceremony on camera.
Mr Morrison, 33, said: ‘I live in Lombok, Indonesia, and I travelled to Sulawesi to photograph the Ma’nene festival.
‘The ritual is held yearly and is regarded as a manifestation of the Torajanese’s love for their ancestors, leaders and relatives who have died.’
The age of the corpses varies, but some are more than 100 years old. The bodies are taken from their graves by their families then cleaned and washed. Their clothes are replaced and then the bodies are put back in the ground.
‘Some of the deceased men are dressed up in suits and ties. It was an amazing sight to witness.’
