Inside the 'village of death', where the villagers dig graves, wear new clothes for the body

For the locals in this Indonesian village, Rambu Solo ritual is a very important part of their lives.

On the Mirror page recently posted images of "the village of the dead" where families will dig their loved ones' bodies to wash their bones and put on them new clothes. People in the village in the mountains of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

According to National Geographic, this practice can be started in the 1900s, through which family members not only pay homage to the deceased but also a ceremony to ask for blessing for fresh land. good, good harvest. Every three years, people dig up the bodies of the deceased. They will put the beautiful costumes on the remains, then carry their loved ones to march in the village.

The bodies of relatives will stay in the house for several years until the family holds a big party.

A woman holds a picture of her husband.

For the Torajan people, funerals are considered a very important ritual for the people here. Usually, it usually lasts up to a week and is a ritual considered the most expensive. People here said the organization of a spiritual funeral was the dream of many people.

Some people fall into the debt of piling up after celebrating funerals for their loved ones, but for them, it is the stronger emotional connection between the living and the dead.

Photographer Claudio Sieber, who spent three weeks with the people of Torajans said: "The people here have kept the media from year to year, although life is increasingly influenced by modern culture. ".

The body of a child.

A person is also invited to "smoke" by his children .

People wear new clothes for the deceased.

Many generations of dead people are placed in the house.

They are also accompanied by items that when used or lived.

For the Torajan, one of their relatives was only considered dead after celebrating the funeral.

The Torajan people often wanted to bury at the place where they were born and lived their whole lives, if unfortunately they died in a remote place, their families had to go there to process their souls.