Text from Travellers Official Information Bureau in Batavia reads as follows: A perfumer in the lovely head-dress of the Ardja-dance. This is a performer of the Balinese Ardja dance clad in a most gorgeously decorated head-dress. The Balinese native is finely built and splendidly upright in carriage and mien and when clothed for these dance is often as pretty as a picture. This photograph also shows a portion of the elaborate dress, richly decorated with embossed gold-leaf and embroidered with gold thread which also forms part of the traditional costume.
