An odalan is a yearly festive celebration of the founding of a Hindu temple (pura) that occurs every 210 days which constitutes a year on the Balinese religious calendar. As each village has three kinds of temples, it is nicknamed “The Island of a Thousand Temples” and almost feels like when you are there s at least one odalan happens almost daily in most areas of the island.
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Balinese carvings and masks are ethnic folk art and a blend of Hinduism and its initial animism. Most masks made in Bali are from pulai wood that rarely cracks and is easier to carve. As it is not native to Lombok, carvers there use a variety of woods some of which were dense with others light….
Most jauk keras (strong, scary) masks of a giant are often red or orange to reinforce a volatile dance with jerky movements. This jauk manis (good, sweet) mask dance is a more controlled, regulated and enacted with more calm and human movements. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it is in excellent condition with expected minor scratches and paint losses.
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