Gung Biang Ade and her offering

Gung Biang Ade the aunt of the celebrated baby is offering obligations to the holy shrine in the compound.
Women, not men, make the offerings. Often several generations of a family will sit together chatting, mechanically stitching, skewering and cutting at breakneck speed – the youngest barely old enough to wield a knife. Balinese offerings not only take an enormous amount of time, effort and money to make – but by putting something of themselves into their creations, their creators in turn offer their life-energy, and time, to God.