Group of dancers, with at the centre Ni Cawan, from Sumerta. Dressed in legong kupu-kupu costume. This dance is not performed any more. It could have 4 or 5 dancers, both male and female. Later Pak Brata invented the kupu-kupu dance, inspired by the legong kupu-kupu.
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Event poster: The Horniman Gardens Carol Concert presented by ILEA, 1988
object | ARC/HMG/PR/001/004/011
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Coastlands WC Demaera uitulat chimneys
object | ARC/GUP/002/247
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object | ARC/DEZ/397/1572
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Color 35mm positive film of people (front view) rowing in canoe traveling through marshy water lined with plants
object | ARC/GUP/005/139
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