samedi 31 mars 2007

The praying II. Bentuyung


The praying I. Bentuyung


People gather for the final pray, the dark is coming.

Sorrow. Bentuyung


The last ritual, this is the symbol of the dead people.

Escaping from the smoke III. Bentuyung


Escaping from the smoke II. Bentuyung


Escaping from the smoke I. Bentuyung


The smoke is suffocating and some people rather like to escape in the next ricefield.

lundi 26 mars 2007

Procession III. Bentuyung


Procession III. Bentuyung


Offerings. Bentuyung


Offerings are bringed to the temple and the cemetery where will be processed the cremation.

Under the banyan tree. Bentuyung


Sarongs I. Bentuyung


Hair Bentuyung


Sarongs II. Bentuyung


Double. Bentuyung


Happy motherhood. Bentuyung


Passing time. Bentuyung


Women generations...

Woman. Bentuyung


Lost in her thoughts. Bentuyung


Under the sacred banyan tree.

Procession II. Bentuyung


Arriving to the temple.

Procession. Bentuyung


From the village to the temple.

The wall. Bentuyung


The grand son.

Hiding.Bentuyung


The younger grand-daughter.

The grandma. Bentuyung


Dressing. Bentuyung


Kids are ready for the big cremation; not yet the grandma...

Women. Bentuyung


Sitting all along the bamboo shrine for the dead people symbols....

Che. Bentuyung


Contrasting Bali...

Girls. Bentuyung


dimanche 25 mars 2007

The bamboo gallery IV. Tegalantang


Weeping...

The bamboo gallery III. Tegalantang


Men put the name of each dead people on top of his compartment.

The bamboo gallery II. Tegalantang


The bamboo gallery. Tegalantang


In this bamboo gallery, each family have his place for the bones , portrait, and objects for the ritual. Women are cleaning the yard, the ceremony will be processed a few days later.

Burning. Tegalantang


Burning the garbage before the funeral ceremony. Under the shelter are the animals in wich will be burned the bones of the dead people.

Weeping I. Tegalantang


Cleaning the ground for the funeral ceremony.

Laundry III. Bentuyung


When you are a girlin Bali, you have to help your mother in doing laundry, for exemple, here in a tropical vegetation.

Laundry II. Bentuyung


Laundry I. Bentuyung


Corner glance. Bentuyung