Story Of Bali, Indonesia

In other areas, too, we often come across particularly fire and vigorous carvings as decoration on the most important parts of the houses such as the main post of the supporting plles.

Apart from houses, a great number of wooden objects arc also carved. Sword-hilts, shields, and prows of boats, for example are often decorated with traditional motifs of an unmistakably magic and symbolic character. This is particularly the case with the Bataks,.who incorporated all manner of magic signs and fertility symbols into their decorations.

Since the Indonesians have a special talent for the decorative arts, Sculpture in wood we shall treat this in some detail. Some attention deserves to he given to the manner in which the artists of the Archipelago have treated the free-standing human figure. Ancestor worship in particular gave rise to the carving of such sculptures. These statues were worshipped almost as though they were the ancestors whom they represented; this means of artistic expression was thus rooted entirely iii magic. The form is largely determined according to the manner of identification. In this way expression was given to those elements believed to be especially powerful or effective.

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