Bundled up Sulawesi children sit in front of intricately designed dwellings. The eaves of the roofs curve upward, similar to the sterns of ships, projecting dramatically beyond the ends of the houses. The ark-shaped dwellings so resemble ships that some anthropologists believe that these mountain people may have a seafaring past. (Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Life and Death in Tana Toradja," June 1972, National Geographic magazine)
