Dressing the dead

Family members hold up a mummy before giving it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000157" title="Indonesia" href="/topic/intl/indonesia-PLGEO00000157.topic">Indonesia's</a> South Sulawesi Province. The ritual, called Ma'nene, involves changing the clothes of mummified ancestors every three years to honor love for the deceased. Locals believe dead family members are still with them, even if they died hundreds of years ago, a family spokesman said.
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( Reuters photo / August 24, 2012 )

Family members hold up a mummy before giving it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of Indonesia's South Sulawesi Province. The ritual, called Ma'nene, involves changing the clothes of mummified ancestors every three years to honor love for the deceased. Locals believe dead family members are still with them, even if they died hundreds of years ago, a family spokesman said.

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