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By Ayesha Sitara Indonesia’s Torajan hill tribe is known for its animistic funeral rites, that involve caring for the dead at home – sometimes for years after they dieduntil a buffalo has been sacrificed. Click here for Part 1. 💡Note: This gallery contains graphic images of human remains and animal slaughter. Torajans practice a class based society and so funerals of the richer noblemen are more extravagant to mark their status. Their graves are decorated with statues in their image, knows as tau taus, and the most elite noblemen who have sacrificed more than 23 buffalos have monoliths erected…

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