B123 Ritual: bathing the body before funeral.

Title of artwork	B123 Ritual: bathing the body before funeral.
Date of work	October 20, 1936
Artist(s)	Ida Bagus Ketut Diding
Locations	Batuan
Collected in ...	Bateson and Mead Collection Private Collection, Los Angeles Neuhaus Brothers Collection
Catalog Number	B 123
Accession Number	317 on red sticker
Photo credit	The Photographer Princeton
Description	Leyak sets next to a offerings and people praying during a corpse washing ceremony (part of a cremation), another leyak in monkey form is in a pavilion behind the people washing the corpse. A wayang lemah (puppet show without screen) is performed front right. Four gender instruments played front left.
Abstracted summary	L: body laid out for ritual washing, man and woman with offerings at corpse's head. Orchestra at front. R: priest doing ritual. 2 figures in costume at bottom R. Monsters with long tongues in crowd. Text has written on the back in Bateson's hand. 'bought fr R. Neuhaus 20/X/38 ? name under label wrong. Also on back red sticker with number 317
Extended description	VILLAGESCAPE; WOMAN BEARING; WAYANG DRAMA; MUSIC; LEYAK; INTERIOR BONNET-TURNED (H.Geertz notes)
Price	ƒ7 on Neuhaus sticker
Medium of production	ink and color on paper
Height (inches)	18.5 14.75