B/g/6/96 "Djangger" Society dance. Travellers Official Information Bureau III Bali: dances, for Netherland India Rijswik 15 BATAVIA CENTRUM JAVA.”

Janger dancers, with a dancer with a spear or arrow amidst them, and possibly a dancer playing the part of the boar from Arjuna Wiwiha to the left; showing the two rows of kneeling female dancers/chanters, the closest with their backs to the camera an wearing Javanese kain; a single dancer within the square with a different costume and carrying an arrow. No collar – may be the same occasion as 769.

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