Maya Indian woman cleans the bones of her great-grandparents in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula
Maya Indian Elsi Euan cleans the bones of her great-grandparents while her family looks on, in the village of Pomuch in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, some 838 miles (1349 km) from Mexico City, October 31, 2006. In a tradition dating back centuries, families in Pomuch exhume their dead after three years in the grave and transfer their dried bones and skulls, often with hair attached, to wooden crates on permanent display in open funeral niches REUTERS/Jennifer Szymaszek (MEXICO)