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| Lots of bones... |
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| The new tomb (fasana) a few km from my village. It took the family about 3 months to build it (I helped build the rock wall around it..), and it now houses about 40 skeletons. |
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| One of many lambas (blankets) full exhumed bones of relatives. |
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| Lambas full of bones.... |
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| It's not a Famadihana if there isn't a ridiculous amount of rice present, and the women aren't cooking every hour of the 3ish day event. |
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| Vary sy laoka...the average size of the piece of meat you will receive at the event from the cow recently slaughtered. |
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| Congregating outside of one of the two new tombs. The families dance in front of the tomb singing and carrying the bodies above their heads. |
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| The remains of the slaughtered cow. |
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| Inside of one of the new tombs. The relatives of the deceased arrange the bones... |
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| My friend's husband. He died 3 years ago. |
Great post and great pics. I was able to attend the famadihana ceremony in Madagascar a few years back. I thought it would be morbid, but it was happy and beautiful. I still remember that little girl dancing with her grandmother's corpse and crying. wow! It took me a few years to figure out how to write the story on my blog in a way that people would understand. Great job on the article!
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