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	Painted at > Batuan
Collected in ...	Was previously collected in > Bateson and Mead Collection Is currently collected in > Private Collection, Los Angeles Was previously collected in > 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