Tabuik - stock photo

Detail of Tabuik seen in preparing a tabuik or a funeral bier at Pasa village for Tabuik Festival in Pariaman, Indonesia. Tabuik Festival is the practice of throwing a tabuik into the sea takes place every year in Pariaman on the 10th of Muharram since 1831. The practice was introduced to the region by the Shia Muslim troops from India who were stationed and later settled there during the British Raj. A "tabuik" also refers to the towering funeral biers carried around during the remembrance procession, and is similar in form to several of the indigenous cultures totems found in the old world Western cultures.