The funeral rites in Tana Toraja are unique.   As a vegetarian I don't enjoy watching the killing of animals, so I hid behind my camera and changed the occasion into an artificial, through-the-lens experience.   I'm told that sometimes more than a hundred kerbau (buffalo) are slaughtered in the celebrations for a rich person's funeral.   Only four were killed on this day.

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