It looked like whole villages of people dressed up in ceremonial uniforms lined up in turn to present various gifts, including pigs and water buffalo to be sacrificed.
Families go broke putting on funerals.
This represents not only the magnificent sacrifices they attracted to their funeral, but also a debt incurred to others' funerals. We barged in on a wedding party, but they were gracious about posing for pictures. They were drinking sugar-based liquor out of hollowed sugar canes but didn't offer us any. All through Indonesia we've been seeing roadside stands with shelves of unlabeled bottles containing a pale liquid. We've been thinking this is the local hooch.