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These are simple linear motifs, sometimes with tendrils and hooks, as well as stylized leaf and flower motifs. The most beautiful style amongst the parang patterns is the so-called parang rusak pattern. Only persons of princely rank were allowed to wear it. But not only for this reason does it deserve to be called a princely pattern: from an aesthetic point of view, too, this pattern is by far the most beautiful example of batik work executed at the princely courts of central .Java.

In Wajang Wong the comedy only slightly embroiders the solemn dance of the main characters, and is provided chiefly by the antics of the animals; deer, bird, and above all monkeys.
In the marvellous Wajang Wong in the palace of the Sultan in Djokja (Java) a host of elaborately comic animals fight on the demon side--elephant, wild boar, snake, and tiger. The smaller ones gambol most engagingly, the larger species are huge bamboo structures, carried over a man's shoulders, very awkward opponents for the heroes

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