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. The Daag and the tjaks at that time were dressed only in Balinese kains; the girls wore the close-fitting bodice or scarf, and woven cotton kain which they still wear for temple Prayer and in the ordinary Djanger in south Bali, which has fortunately not yet adopted the berets, ballerina skirts, stockings, and even shoes considered so chic in nordi Bali.1 The girls at that early stage only wore flowers in their hair. What we think of as the typical head-dress of the Djanger girl was perhaps evolved from the circular flower head-dress of the Desak, in Ardja. But the splendid high circular Djanger crown, with its four scintillating tiers of painted spikes, is no fanciful invention.

It is only a modification of the Balinese wedding crown, of the head-.dress worn by the doll-like effigies into which the souls of the dead are summoned, and of the palm-leaf design of a generalized female figure, called Tjili, on the lamaks or long stoles which hang before every Balinese house or shrine at certain festival times. It is, indeed, the head-dress of the beautiful girl par excellence, of 'Miss Indonesia'. Djanger has in the shortest time de ' parted further from its source than any other Balinese dance, the only trace it now retains of its religious origin being the elaborate initial offerings which always accompany a Djanger performance, even of the most secular variety.

The production of a Djanger performance varies in degree of elaboration; roughly it is as follows. The gamelan, consisting of flute, percussion and drums (as for Ardja), begins with a tumbling sound, and the curtain rises without introduction, on a frantically gesticulating group of boys perched on each other's shoulders and barking out rhythmic sounds. They will be dressed in football shorts, striped jerseys and a kind of combination jerkin consisting of beaded collar, fringed epaulettes, and leather bib reaching almost to the waist, studded with bits of looking-glass. Their hair flies wild, and they wear bristling black moustaches, stuck on or painted, which turn up fiercely at the ends. Their faces are set and unsmiling; their moustaches give them a fierce, uncompromising air.

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