Balinese Painted Ceremonial Banner

19th to early 20th century AD.  Long, narrow colorful hand painted temple hanging depicting a procession of seated and standing figures painting on cloth. It is telling a story related to religion, cosmology, mythology and everyday life. In essence, these paintings illustrate epic poems and folk tales. The major stories illustrated in traditional Balinese temple paintings are derived from the Indian epic poems the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These types of cloth are hung along the eaves of a temple building during religious ceremonies.Size 54 in L x 10 in H. (Framed 57"L x 13.5"H.)Ex collection of Susan Gullia, NYC; a travel consultant and fundraiser who died in 2022 at the age of 89, created some of the very first educational, luxury tours specifically designed for art collectors and museum supporters. In 1964 Gullia developed the inaugural museum-sponsored “study tour” for the Brooklyn Museum, on which museum directors took donors to Egypt, giving them access to museums, temples an