About a kilometer from Goa Gajah is a 14th century life-size frize, depicting scenes of rural life. Unfortunately, few tourists visit the stite as it entails a walk through rice fields, but it’s easy find the walk isn’t difficult. Between Goa Gajah and the Bedulu croassroads, follow the combblestone road on the right (south), past warung to the rice fields. From there it is a walk to the site.
Carved into the side of the rock, the relief (25m x 2m – 82ft x 6.5ft) its either a series of isolated vignettes on day life of a story. The carvings are very different from any others foumd either on Bali or Java, scenes are naturalistic, and do not conform to editional styles found elsewere.
Framed by a leave otif, the umpressions include hunters attacking a boor, a farmer hoeing a field, a woman firtively oeeking behind a door. A woman pulling a horses tail; culminating in relief a Ganesha, Siwa’s elephant-headed son. Interestingly, towards the end of the frize, smaller animal scenes seem to parody the human scenes, for instance, a frog stabs a snake an a monkey steers another monkey bu puilling its tail. The carving was “discovered” in the 1920s by the Dutch artist Nieuwenkamp, altouh the Balinese had known about it for years. Legend has it the carving are handiwork of the giant, Kebo Iwo, who etched them with his thumbnail.
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