An Akha Funeral


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Family members put items of clothing into the coffin with the body. All the clothes are new, never been worn, and are for the use of the dead. I figured that the clothes were simply to ensure that the deceased was well dressed in the afterlife, and I was right—but I was also told that the clothes were to make sure that the dead had all they needed and weren’t compelled to return to the village.

 

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