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Toraja Rock-Cut Burials

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Living rock-cut burial tradition in the Toraja highlands of South Sulawesi. Cliff-face tombs with wooden tau-tau effigies of the deceased standing in carved balconies. Practice continues today.

-3.0167°, 119.8167°

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