Story of Bali, Indonesia

They are always slain, whereupon the bearers roll out from under them and try to escape, but are captured and carried off by the palace attendants. These strange monster resuscitate in 'protective coloring of snow white, to be again laid low. Fortunately Bali has not yet discovered this refined means of stage illusion.
We are now back in the forest. The rakshasas have withdrawn. Only Marica enters. From the far end, disguised as Menda, the deer, masked; and with an informal cluster of short draperies, a pale coral monkey's tail curling over his head, finished off with a many-colored bunch of ribbons (it is mentioned in the Ramayana that the deer Sita so much desired had a rainbow tail

Two horns show above his leather mask, which like all those in Wajang Wong is framed in wide-spreading gilded leather wings, perforated in splendid patterns. Sita and the tjondong have risen, and winding forward converse with the deer, who trots and prances with agile steps and engaging gestures before Sita, leaping from one kneeling posture to another. She tells Rama of her desire for the deer, while it curvets in sly elation over the ground, somehow in its complete unrealism the very essence of deer. Rama comes out into the forest with Toealen, leaving Lakshmana, with Sita in the hut, i.e. beside the gamelan.

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