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Korean funeral procession
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- Title
- Korean funeral procession
- Content partner
- Alexander Turnbull Library
- Collection
- TAPUHI
- Description
Original caption reads: "Chanting hymns and beating drums and bells, the male members of a bereaved Korean family carry the coffin to a burial plot on the hillside. Much to the annoyance of the slow moving convoy, the body is carried two steps back for every three steps forward. The two back indsicate that although the dead person's body spirit wishes to return home to the family the three steps are winning to take the body to the grave and release the spirit to join the ancestors in heave...
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- Date created
- 31 December 1953
- URL
- http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22859413
- Related subjects
- Funeral rites and ceremonies / Korea
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