AMNH 70.2/1127 Brayut: Ktut Subaya's marriage

Brayut. The marriage of the Brayut's son, Ktut Subaya. On the scenes at the top of the paintings (from left to right), we see men making sate and other meat dishes, and women with a priestess. Then come two scenes showing respectively groups of men an women looking over to the right (i.e. to the space outside the painting). This row of scenes is very thin, while the bottom row is much wider. It shows a procession, with Ktut Subaya on a horse (he is recogniseable by his pock-marked face), and then Subaya attending performances. In the centre of the painting we see the type of barong known as barong macan very vividly depicted, and to the right is a performance of gambuh dance-drama, recogniseable by its long flutes and by the head-dresses of the characters, here Panji and his attendants, played by groups of commoners. Although old, faded and torn, this painting shows high-quality work, and is extremely interesting from the point of view of subject matter.