I Wayan Dibia thinks this may be a different ceremony to the one with the procession, perhaps a tooth-filing. The image shows the crowd gathered and seated indoors. . Alternatively this is after the purification of the soul, back in the house of the deceased.
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Photograph: representatives of the Horniman Museum and London County Council in the gallery during the ceremony for the modernisation of the South Hall, 1965
object | ARC/HMG/PH/EVENTS/1965/001/009
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Colour transparency of a Wai Wai woman.
object | ARC/GUP/004/018
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Receipt
object | ARC/HMG/CM/009/001/F56/296
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A Handbook to the Cases Illustrating Animal Locomotion, 1912
object | ARC/HMG/PB/001/032
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