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Jarai tomb house. The strange and unique mass grave is made of wood

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The video captured in Viet Nam on May 03, 2019.

It was built in 1998 by five Jarai Arap men from Mrong Ngo village, Chu Pa district, Gia Lai province. Thirty dead people can be buried in this large tomb house in the village. The decorated Sculptures are carved from tree trunks using axes, chisels, and knives. Statues of men and women showing off their secret parts and pregnant women symbolize fertility and birth The wooden roof is covered with plaited bamboo planks on which designs are painted natural red pigments. Figures on the roof depict activities of the tomb abandoning ritual It is thought that the tomb house is for the dead in the afterlife. Broken dishes, bottles cups, trays, and wooden tool models are put inside the tomb to provide necessities to the deceased in their other world. After the ritual, the tomb falls into oblivion.

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