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Balinese leaf and flower offering basket on the ground
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1986
- Location
- Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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Seen from above, a small, square offering basket contains red blossoms and shredded leaves.
Several times each day, members of most Balinese families set out leaf and flower offering baskets on the ground near their homes and places of work. Most of these offerings to the ancestors and gods are prepared by young girls and older women.
