charlesttrego

Identified! [Charles Tillyer Trego, director of the film "Isles of Paradise", which was shot in Bali, possibly in Washington, D.C., for the premier of the film] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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• Mitchel25J (69 plus million Views Thank You ) said:

  The aircraft is a Stinson SM-6000 Tr-Motor operated by Ludington Airline, which was an air carrier based in the Northeast part of the United States

• Fraser Pettigrew said:

  It's a little hard to tell at the available resolution, but the figurines appear to be from Hindu mythology, in which various gods have mounts known as vahana, some of them winged, such as eagles, parrots, geese or swans: www.britannica.com/topic/vahana

• swanq said:

  Fraser Pettigrew : I agree that these look like gods on their vahanas. However, in lots of googling, I haven't found anything in quite this style. BTW, there are much higher-res images at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.36964 assuming you have a TIFF viewer. To me the one on the left looks female with a mount that is a bird. On the right is an aggressive male on a mount with very similar appearance. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B3%B3%E5%87%B0#/media/%E3%83%95... has similar wings. Appears to be from Indonesia.

• Fraser Pettigrew said:

  swanq Yes, I worked out the high-res link eventually! Doh! I'm thinking that the one on the left is probably Vishnu on his vahana Garuda (an eagle). Or at least it's the closest thing to it I've seen. I think also they might be more likely to be Indonesian/Balinese rather than Indian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda#/media/File:Garuda_Wishnu_Ba...

• swanq said:

  I absolutely agree that these look Balinese. The 1932/3 date is before the independence of what became Indonesia from the Netherlands (Dutch East Indies). See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia#Colonial_era I was wondering if this delivery could be associated with an embassy, but it's not clear what the Dutch would have been doing with Balinese artifacts.