Undated field notes taken on a visit to Kajar. Tools commonly made in Kajar.

Field notes taken during a visit on 6 July 1978 to the blacksmithing village of Kajar. Field notes dated 30 July 1984 on a trip to Kajar with Maya. Field notes dated August 1991 with people from the local government offices, an official from the People’s Bank of , Alice G. Dewey, and a friend.

map 1. Indonesia (Adapted from King and Wilder 2003, xxvii) map 2. Island of and its four provinces (Adapted from Koentjaraningrat 1985, 23)

110o30 111o Mount Surakarta Merapi (Solo)

N Monument CENTRAL JAVA PROVINCE Mount SLEMAN Lawu DISTRICT Batur Sleman Temple Ngawen Bayat City

KULON PROGO Kotagede DISTRICT Bantul Nglipar BANTUL Imogiri Kajar DISTRICT Wonosari Temon

8 o Sodo

GUNUNG KIDUL Capital DISTRICT Town Village INDIAN OCEAN Temple Mountain Peak

0 5 10 mi

05 10 15 km map 3. Yogyakarta Special Region (province), Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (D.I.Y.) to Nglipar Limestone hills Limestone outcrops Banyan tree Dam Narrow road or footpath N

KARANGTENGAH I

Limestone Outcrops DUWETREJO KARANG- KARANGTENGAH TENGAH III II Village Office and Meeting House Pak Paeran’s House Karangtengah Market Kedung Dam SIDOREJO Kentus Springs

KEDUNG II

Pak Harjo’s KEDUNG House KAJAR Kajar I Market Charcoal Market I Pak Pujo’s House

Warehouse Pak Sastro’s House and Coop GUNUNG PANCURAN KAJAR Pak Atmo’s House

District Road II Sumber Pak Harto’s Kajar Springs House School

KAJAR III

0 10 20 mi

to 010 20 30 40 km Wonosari map 4. Kajar Village (Kelurahan Karangtengah)

Ann with a group of villagers on Lombok Island, where she had a development program under way. (below) Ann with Indonesian government officials and visiting development workers in a mountain village of Island. Ann with one of the women of a rural village on the island of Lombok. Ann in ( temple in background). Ann admiring the ducklings and chicks raised by farmers on Bali. An empu (right) with two panjak, Kajar village. A perapen in West Java. (below) An empu (right) with three panjek making a sickle, Kajar village. Note the nail-shaped anvil.

(opposite) An empu making pick-axes, Kamasan village, Bali; note that there are two quenching troughs in the foreground, a bamboo trough filled with used motor oil and a stone trough filled with water.

A young boy working the bellows, Kajar village.

(opposite) An empu quenching the white-hot tip of a pick-axe in a large stone trough, Kajar village.

A small pande (blacksmith’s) temple in Sukawati village, Bali. (below) A husband-and-wife team using a large bamboo tool to unload the kiln, Ngawen village.

(opposite) The only Islamic official in Kajar village, making offerings and burning incense at the Bersih Desa festival. An old ceramic furnace used for brass casting in Batur village. (below) An old Chinese box bellows in Batur village; it is built into the right side of the kiln.

(opposite) Making a repoussé silver bowl in Kamasan village, Bali; the tool used by the smith is tipped with bell metal, a type of bronze.

Pouring molten iron into earth molds, Batur village.

(opposite) The wife of one of the empu in Batur village flattening disks of silver into sheet. Ann Dunham’s keris. Blade made by Empu Djeno Harumbraja (1929–2006), Gatak, Ngayogyakarta. Private collection.