Painting: Ider-ider -- Bima Story
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1930 to 1932
name: label: Collector
content: Conrad Spies
label: Donor Name
content: Diana S. Green
notes: label: Notes
content: Style crude but vigorous not halus finished. Background appears to be some sort of flower (?) with rainbow segments in the sky in places. Only one scene divider visible and that of a most unusual "scalloped" form. Style very unusual and not clearly of a local centre known to me, therefore probably an individual. Figures bend over to an extent, and very large servant figures. Trees unusual. Certainly torn at right and probably at left. Story not known to me, and possibly unidentifiable as incomplete...Starting at right: Central tree, right, a king with Bima behind supported by Twalen and Morda; left, a "patih" (?) with 6 knights behind, knights 4 and 5 have dark skins, but all are halus in eye form. Presumably an order giving or reporting scene. Next scene: a long fight. Sub scenes starting at right. A) One knight stabs another. B) Back of Bima...5 dead and dying, presumably struck down by Bima. C) Knight with bow, knight recoils from bug-eyed king (?) who shows magic invulnerability -- bent arrows. D) Morda fights Saggut. E) Knight with club on peculiar beast (elephant?) faces bug-eyed king/patih(?) on horse with cub, he too shows invulnerability -- bent clubs and swords. F) An immense Twalen... Next scene?...a large fire, then tree. Two groups of warriors all with clubs. All are looking to the right but appear to be moving to the left. The right hand group of 6 have a variety if headdresses... #3 has a priest's hat. The group of three on the left are all more refined and are knights. There is no scene divider, but the last scene appears to be separate. A most peculiar priest reacts violently to a severed bug-eyed head which, carried by an arrow, comes from the right. A "baru"-- priest's servant-- falls over, losing his headdress, a female servant looks on. This is clearly meant to be a comic scene. There are so many Bima stories that are not part of the Mahabaratta that it is not surprising that one cannot identify this example from the previous three scenes. Nevertheless very interesting. The priest on the left may have conferred invulnerability on the bug-eyed fighters. This has been overcome presumably by Bima, whose success is indicated by the severed head. Beyond that I cannot go at this moment.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bali, Indonesia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Balinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 373014
label: USNM Number
content: E431548-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting