There was a tree trunk thus carved (I don't know if it was by Tjokot or one (if his carver sons or by an imitator of his style) at the Segara village Hotel, in a very light wood, and I thought highly of it. American collectors have been acquiring Tjokot's pieces as well as Njana's and Tilem's. Sir Robert Blackwood writes of Balinese carvers as "the world's finest craftsmen in wood".

There was also carving in bone, cowbone that tourists sometimes mistook for ivory-until they heard the price for the intricately carved ornament they were offered: usually two dollars. Which could be and often was, bargained down to one dollar.

BATIK is everyday Wear for Balinese, at [cast from the hips down. Batiks galore are displayed in the shops of Denpasar and in the roadside vendors' stalls-but Bali doesn't make any batik, or hardly any. Nearly all you see there is made in Java, at Jogjakarta and Solo, and the traveller who is going to those places can buy batiks cheaper there.

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