Seven years ago, when Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias first visited Bali, that East Indies island had not become a stopping-place on round-the-world tours, or the subject of travel films notable primarily for their pictures of "brown girls with beautiful breasts." Separated from Java by a deep, narrow strait, conquered by the Dutch only 22 years before, Bali was a populous, rainy, mountainous island with no good harbor, hard to get to, hard to get at. By the time Covarrubias made his second visit (1933), Balinese dancers had been the sensation of the Colonial...
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