Group of dancers, with at the centre Ni Cawan, from Sumerta. Dressed in legong kupu-kupu costume. This dance is not performed any more. It could have 4 or 5 dancers, both male and female. Later Pak Brata invented the kupu-kupu dance, inspired by the legong kupu-kupu.
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Slides taken in Muscat, Oman by Ann Douthwaite, 1973-1976
object | ARC/DOU/001/072
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Press cutting about the Museum's opening times and days during the Easter Holiday
object | ARC/HMG/PR/004/001/182
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Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
object | ARC/SUL/001/013
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Horniman Museum: Exhibition of Rumanian Folk Art: lantern slides
object | ARC/HMG/EXH/1957/001/004/012
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