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March 20, 2018
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The Sumbanese people live a life in close connection with nature and in the permanent presence of their ancestral spirits. The tall roofs of their houses are where the spirits dwell, in the middle part of the house live the people and under the floor, set on high poles, live the animals. Between the houses and around the village stand megalithic graves of their former leaders, some hundreds of years old. RNS photo by Alexandra Radu