Making offerings

These are a series of short clips that document our experiences making offerings with palm leaves and rice dough with friends Made (in her home) and D'Ayu (in the temple at Tjampuhan).

Elsa is making some basic offerings, canang ('chanang') sari that women make everyday for family temples and their homes . Made (Mahd-ay) is the woman who owns the villa we rented - she makes 100 of these each day to place in her home and temple and also the other homes that they rent out. It's an amazing amount of work! Folks are using staplers now instead of the traditional bamboo stalks - faster and easier on the fingers but not as elegant.

Made delivered the canang to us along with a giant bag of colorful flowers so that we could do our very own offerings at home.

These are tiny rice dough (think: your mama's homemade playdo) offerings for temple ceremonies. They represent sacred symbols of Balinese Hindu cosmology.