Palm leaf offerings on car windshield at cremation ceremony
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1986
- Location
- Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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Palm leaf offerings are attached to a car’s windshield wipers at a cremation ceremony.
Yellow-green palm leaf fronds have been folded, cut, and pinned with small sticks to make an offering that is intended to bless a participant’s blue car for this important funeral event.
