The Living Legacy of Funerary Arts
about 7 months ago (02/08/2024)
The Living Legacy of Funerary Arts Skip to content Toraja people of Indonesia; central Sulawesi, Rongkong area, “Burial Cloth” (19th century), cotton, warp ikat, 65 1/2 x 152 x 107 1/2 inches (image via Wikimedia Commons) Death is one of life’s few universal experiences. As long as people are born, people will die. And as long as people have died, artists have played an integral role in creating cultural death practices.