Ida Bagus Njana was not in his bale. his pavilion with a huge carved four-poster bed in it, when I was at Mas. His son said he was making his reverence the temple. which had an ornate gate in the split style, of warm red brick with grey stories sculptural decoration. In the showroom I saw some of the old man's work. It was not -Sri the Balinese tradition any more than it was in the new souvenir style. It was much more imaginative and used distortion to gain its effect, which is legitimate enough. Some of it seemed to me to have the kind of vigour and volume to its forms that looks so right in Eskimo art, but doesn't belong with the Balinese ethos.

Another famous carver, Tjokot, lived in the off-track village of Djati that you can get only part-way to by car from Ubud. Tjokot was reputedly aged ninety and losing his sight. He took tree-trunks--or a whole section of a tree with a limb or two attached to the trunk-and carved them into spirit figures the animistic forms of supernatural potencies the Balinese believed in before they got the Hindu gods from India.

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