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66 GANESA IN JAVA, BALI, BORNEO
interest, now in the Kern Institute at Leyden,1 was discovered in a village called
Davoek Tocket and is believed to be of the eighth century.2
Originally he was four-armed, but only one arm remains, the hand of which rests
on the right knee and probably held the broken tusk. He is obese and nude and
wears a triangular collar, the point falling between the breasts and held in place by
bands passing under the arms.
As in most of the images of Ganesa found in the Malay Archipelago, the head is
the chief interest, and in this bronze it is especially so, since it is unlike any that we
have yet met with. The trunk, which is short, turns directly upward and rises to a
level with the mukuta.
Another feature which is rarely met with in the Malay Archipelago is the pose of
the feet. He is not seated with the soles of the feet touching but is in the Indian
attitude of locked legs.
Since neither the raised trunk nor the pose of locked legs, nor even the mukuta,
indicate either Javanese or Balinese origin, it seems probable that this small
bronze image of Ganesa, although found in Bali, came originally from China or
Indo-China.
1 v. Pl. 32 (c). Presented to the Kern Institute 2 Letter from Mr. Vogel to the author,
by Dr. Kern, assistant resident at Bah.
interest, now in the Kern Institute at Leyden,1 was discovered in a village called
Davoek Tocket and is believed to be of the eighth century.2
Originally he was four-armed, but only one arm remains, the hand of which rests
on the right knee and probably held the broken tusk. He is obese and nude and
wears a triangular collar, the point falling between the breasts and held in place by
bands passing under the arms.
As in most of the images of Ganesa found in the Malay Archipelago, the head is
the chief interest, and in this bronze it is especially so, since it is unlike any that we
have yet met with. The trunk, which is short, turns directly upward and rises to a
level with the mukuta.
Another feature which is rarely met with in the Malay Archipelago is the pose of
the feet. He is not seated with the soles of the feet touching but is in the Indian
attitude of locked legs.
Since neither the raised trunk nor the pose of locked legs, nor even the mukuta,
indicate either Javanese or Balinese origin, it seems probable that this small
bronze image of Ganesa, although found in Bali, came originally from China or
Indo-China.
1 v. Pl. 32 (c). Presented to the Kern Institute 2 Letter from Mr. Vogel to the author,
by Dr. Kern, assistant resident at Bah.