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Rama and Lakshmana re-enter solemnly singing, and wind up the stage, while the bird flaps madly round and round, beating the earth with its wings. They close round it as it sinks into a lovely crouching posture, and in a high wounded voice tells its tale to Rama, while Toealen interprets. This scene was again without music. The death of the bird, swaying strangely before its final passionate, was very moving. It rose and was led off. The music again grows wild. Rama dances, then stands long motionless. A host of monkeys troop in in two files led by Sugriva and Hanuman, the latter recognizable by his white tail.

Those batik fabrics characterized by a freer interpretation form a group of their own. The motifs are always formed by intertwining leaf or flower motifs, producing a rhythmic arrangement. These patterns are called semen

In the semen patterns flowers and leaves are invariably found, also sometimes in conjunction with animals, the mirong and/or the sawat ornament. The mirong ornament consists of a single or double wing motif. whilst the sawat ornament has a double wing with a bird's tail spread out like a fan; Perhaps this is reminiscent of Shiva's eagle,. garuda.

They address each other with monkey cries, changing restlessly from knee to knee, moving about continually with queer fastidious steps. The monkeys, though dressed in the same medley of short scarlet and check stuffs, the same gilded leather necklaces, bracelets and belts, and uttering the same weird cries, are in style quite carefully differentiated, as well as by their distinctive masks. Sugriva now approaches with majestic but uneasy gestures, never still, punctuating his gliding, darting steps with swift accents.

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