Dead bodies exhumed to be spruced up as part of Indonesian tradition

Mummified ancestors of a rural tribe have been exhumed, spruced up and put on display as part of an intricate burial ritual.

Every four years, the Toraja people, who live across in South Sulawesi in the centre of the archipelago, dig up the graves of their ancestors to meticulously look after their bodies.

In a ceremony known as Ma'nene, which translates to 'care of ancestors' or 'the cleaning of the corpse', the bodies are exhumed, cleaned up, dried under the sun to ensure their longevity, and redressed in their new clothing,

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