Indonesian Villagers Dress Corpses in Ritual For The Dead

Residents around Indonesia's North Toraja regency on Sulawesi island have been celebrating a weeks-long ceremony called "the Manene". Hundreds of corpses including those of babies are brought out in North Toraja's villages some from tombs locally known as Patane as part of a ritual to honour their ancestors.

All family groups gather, each come to check on parents, grandmothers, relatives who are in the Patane. The ceremony is carried out by the Torajans, an ethnic group of around a million people on Sulawesi Island.