Looks more like silat than Baris. Dancer, probably named I Jolas, in strong pose wearing a Javanese kain as a loincloth. Nice image.cf Fig 227 in Hitchcock and Norris. See also Fig 27 in Hitchcock and Norris. Same dancer? Hitchcock and Norris’s reference to Gevaert Ridax may just be the printer of the photo.
R. Bonnet. Baris danser. J. Jolas
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