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Crocodiles & Snakes - Jakarta 1986In 1986, while in Indonesia, I was invited by a friend to see a performance involving crocodiles and snakes at a local arena. Looking back over some 35mm slides that I took of it over 30 years ago, I find it all rather strange and do not clearly understand the point of it all. This was not helped by the slides not being numbered and existing in a random order. Thus I am not entirely sure of the order the slides were taken so I may be taking a few backward and forward leaps in time in the display below. I think that there were unplanned sections in the performance, as at that time there was thunder, lightning and heavy rain. The performers were slipping and sliding in the arena - including the snakes. As can be judged from my expression in the photo at the left I am not a great fan of handling snakes. At the end of the performance an individual in the auditorium voluntarily had himself skewered which perhaps was a fitting finale. Perhaps it could have been improved on by a demonstration of the Balinese witch Rangda eating a child. |
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