calendar

Wooden calendar, tika. Carved from a flat section of wood into a rectangular panel with a decorative curved pediment above. The rectangular panel is divided by incisions into squares in thirty vertical cloumns and seven horizontal rows symbolising the 210 days of the Balinese wuku calendar. Pieces of bone set into some of the squares form five diagonal rows across the calendar. Other auspicious or inauspicious days are indicated with crosses, circles, holes, diagonal lines or combinations of these.

for calculating auspicious days for ceremonies, agricultural activities etc.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2010.76
Date
second half of 20th century
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 440 mm x 186 mm x 6 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; bone ;paint
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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