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For this purpose he needed show of splendour. and here die decorative arts proved useful, and could flourish once again. The stimulus was apparently provided by Pangeran Pekik. the prince of Surabaya, who was married to a sister of Sultan Agung.

As well as the wood-carvers, the silversmiths and jewellers derived benefit, from this new impetus. Their motifs were borrowed from Hindu-Javanese prototypes.

But, whatever the significance of these new tendencies may have been Java's real reputation in die realm of arts' and crafts rested upon two completely different branches: batik designs on textiles, and arms and armour.

The plastic art in wood of the Bataks is characterized by a particular predilection for more complex composition of human and animal-, figures. Sometimes carved in high relief, at other times free-standing.: protruding from the ornamentation as a whole, this type of wood carving is always close to plastic art. Amongst objects used for ceremonial purposes decorated in this manner, the 'magic staff is often of a bizarre beauty. The figures and motifs are carved into a heavy stick of hardwood, and wrench themselves, so to speak, with the uf most effort towards the top, which is crowned by a free-standing figure, usually a human head.

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