Item number Ib451 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Rounded, circular flaring, fibre woven container that has a bowl shape. Exterior has intricate white beadwork on cloth backing in geometric horizontal, concentric bands. Lower beadwork is 9.5 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, vertical pairs of lines with a metal band underneath, white geometric beadwork with metal coiling, alternating metallic coiling x's with white cross beadwork, metallic coiling x's, x's, alternating metallic coiling x's with white cross beadwork, and alternating vertical pairs of lines with metallic coiling at the centre. Upper beadwork is 2.3 cm. with a pattern of vertical pairs of lines with a metal band underneath, x's, and 'dangling' beads below.
This decorated offering bowl is made of dried leaves from palm trees known as lontar in Indonesia. Beadwork in Bali has traditionally been used to decorate sacred items, and has now become popularized through beaded designs on clothing, bags and sandals. Offering bowls or baskets are used by the Hindu community in Bali. The offerings are called banten. There are different types of offerings. Simple daily offerings, known as Canang sari – fruit, flowers, rice, betel and incense – are placed in trays made of woven coconut or banana leaves, and left around a home, a family shrine or along the road. They are perishable goods and ephemeral works of art, and are a sacred way for Balinese Hindu worshippers to express gratitude and represent their devotion to the gods. More elaborate offerings are made for religious festivals, rituals at temples, and other ceremonies.
The stitches inside connect the lontar strips into a bowl shape, and attach the beads on the outside.
religious; ceremonial
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