Cloth painting, ider ider, cotton/rice paste/ink/paint, Kamasan, Bali, Indonesia, 1880-1900. Long narrow strip of natural plain weave cotton cloth dipped in rice paste painted with scenes from the Ramayana in polychrome tints. Scenes depicted are from the Bima in hell stories, from left to right; a group of male figures being attacked by tigers and ox while a demon and three other male figures look on. Four female figures being cooked in a large pot on a fire as a demon wrestles another female into the pot and another female is being threatened by a male figure. Three male figures approach a very large monkey head where a man is already half way in it's mouth. A demon sits in a tree surrounded by four male figures. Two female figures gesture to a male holding a fish while two male figures cluth bomboo.
