An Akha Funeral


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A number of men lift the coffin and start the procession, with the sun and moon symbols on the bamboo pole bringing up the rear. The grandson of the deceased waves his arm triumphantly at the beginning of a walk that will take around one kilometer and end up on a steep hillside in a quiet part of the forest.

 

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