This Balinese wood sculpture depicting a procession on the occasion of Melasti was likely carved by artisans in the village of Mas, or Peliatan, in the 1940s or 1950s. The upright figures are carved from red ebony (kayu ebon) found in Sulawesi; the pale wood is a Balinese soft wood called waru. Gift of Nancy Echols Biggerstaff