PLATE 18.—GAMBOR.Model, showing the performance of the kind of dance called gambor. The suspended figure in
the centre is the performer, the musicians sitting on the left. Behind the musicians are to be
seen some of the sprays of the bouquet of artificial flowers, etc., which is used to represent a
pleasure garden (taman bunga) for the attraction of the dance-spirit. The bird at the top of it is
a hornbill.Page 464.The religious origin of almost all Malay dances is still to be seen in the
performance of such ritualistic observances as the burning of incense, the
scattering of rice, and the invocation of the Dance-spirit according to certain set