THE Puputan (all-out) war was a tragedy that caused total destruction and the plundering of Balis royal treasures by Dutch troops. Most of the captured treasures were transported to the Ethnography Museum in Leiden by the H.M. Koningin Wilhelmina ship from Bali.

The museum, according to Francine Brinkgreve in his article Balinese Kings and the Dutch Government, registered some 410 captured items from the Badung Puputan. These priceless objects arr