Story Of Bali, Indonesia

With their pronounced sense of colour, the Dayaks more than any other tribe appreciate glass beads, and have used them various ways. The Bataks also understand the art of working coloured beads into fabrics. Several methods of doing this are known. Easily recognizable are those on strings: tile beads are strung, and then the strings of beads are fastened on to a backing. These beads have occasionally replaced nassa discs, and thus the magic significance which attached to the latter has been transferred to the beads. This is-some times the case with those on strings. Originally the shells from which nassa discs were taken served the purpose of currency.

Strings of shells were therefore used in trade, but in addition they were in their entirety deemed to be charged with magic of considerable effect. This accounts for the particular value attached to these strings of beads in the Ratak districts, for instance where they are reserved exclusively for persons of princely rank, and otherwise are only worn. by the masked bearers who play a special role in the funeral rites of a deceased prince.

The art of pottery has not flourished to any great extent in Indonesia. Although clay of high quality is available, the art of firing objects was not properly understood, and consequently the art of glazing could also not really develop.

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