Story of Bali, Indonesia

It is worth noting that the tumpal motif, too, appears on the borders of some groups of patterns. Here an ancient symbol has survived.

When the fabric is dipped into the dye-vat, the parts protected in this way do not take up tile dye. Many colours can be applied on one and the same fabric; and nowadays an aniline dye is applied subsequently. This process. known as plangi produces especially attractive results, with a broad range of colour shades.

As has already been mentioned, in many parts of Indonesia the armourer's craft was far developed. The weapons were frequently more than mere implements, but had a deeper significance, a definite function of an almost religious nature. Particular attention was paid to the manufacture of the hilt and scabbard as well as the blade, and such weapons were often fine works of art.

The king as well as his attendants was chased by a tiger with a lion's tail, and climbed posts and platforms to a place of safety; a grotesque monkey leyak gave a queer dark blue monkey child into the king's keeping, and the monkey child was baked over a fire and devoured with great relish by the king and his attendants. The monkey parent returned and there was much hypocritical weeping on the part of the three cannibals, while they furtively wiped from their lips the traces of the meal. Then all marched out, led by the monkey parent, who was magnificently masked. Ile two royal creatures who entered first, princess and king, played no part whatever in the story, nor did they seem to bear the remotest relation to each other.

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