Words
- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Indonesia
- on 2010.07.16
(English) Sacrificing buffalo in Tana Toraja
(English) The buffalo looked calm even though four of his brothers laid bloodied at his feet. It’s as if it knew that his whole life, all the years of pasture and fattening, was meant for this moment.
There was him and another dozen left to go. This was the burial ceremony of a wealthy person, and in Tana Toraja, a region of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, the size of a funeral has to correspond to the social status of the deceased.
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