I Wayan Dibia thinks this may be a different ceremony to the one with the procession, perhaps a tooth-filing. The image shows the crowd gathered and seated indoors. . Alternatively this is after the purification of the soul, back in the house of the deceased.
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Colour slide of buildings with women and animals
object | ARC/GUP/006/180
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Hart Museum Visitor Books
object | ARC/HAR/001/180
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Photograph: trumpet bell showing bell repair
object | ARC/MCG/PH/0272-0303/0277
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A Handbook to the Collections Illustrating a Survey of the Animal Kingdom: Second Edition, 1922
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