Handbook to the ethnographical collections . )pets being cut from leather (fig. 84); in the last,however, they are carved from wood. Appropriate comments are. Fig. 84.—Puppet of stamped leather used in the shadow-plnv;-yu-ayang jjuricci). Java. recited by the owner of the show, called Dalang, in archaic lan-guage, to the acconii^animent of an orchestra composed of gongs andxylophones (fig. 85). But the most widespread form of amuse-ment in Indonesia is cock-fighting, which is found practicallyever^where, while in Java combats between wild beasts andtournaments were extremely popular; a form of
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . )pets being cut from leather (fig. 84); in the last,however, they are carved from wood. Appropriate comments are. Fig. 84.—Puppet of stamped leather used in the shadow-plnv;-yu-ayang jjuricci). Java. recited by the owner of the show, called Dalang, in archaic lan-guage, to the acconii^animent of an orchestra composed of gongs andxylophones (fig. 85). But the most widespread form of amuse-ment in Indonesia is cock-fighting, which is found practicallyever^where, while in Java combats between wild beasts andtournaments were extremely popular; a form of football, inwhich a cane ball is kicked from one player to another is INDONESIA 103 common, especially among the Malays and in Borneo. Dancingis another favourite amusement, and is much esteemed in Java,where the sultan and wealthy nobles kept troupes of dancing-girlsin their harems. Pantomimic dances are found in Borneo andamong the negritos ; among the Batak of Sumatra this exerciseis confined to the male sex. Of musical instruments the gong and the jews-harp are uni-versal ; in Java series of the former are combined with variousbells and xylophon
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