Sulawesi: Signs of the dead

I thought it was Londa but it could be Kete Kesu that we were visiting - Besides handicrafts, there were Tongkonans here, and rice barns too. Later, we came across little Tongkonans and huts, some with Tau Tau and others with photographs of men and women, suggesting the presence of the dead; and it could be a burial site we were walking into! Modernity, I suppose had touched the community and Tau Tau most probably were slowly being replaced by printed photographs. In some of these little Tongkonans and huts, there were sweets and cigarettes which I assumed, were being offered to the dead and there were even crosses there too, suggesting that the Christians here had not entirely given up their roots and culture...


Can you spot the Tau Tau, photographs of the dead, the offerings to the dead and the cross?






Traveling Tip: Have a heart for little huts!

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