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Iko, Dancer, 1927, teak, dimensions unknown, (no image available). 

The statuette is mentioned by Jos Schmutzer in Europeanisme of katholicisme and is depicted there as figure 4. This is likely an example that Jos Schmutzer owned, and it will be one of the many Bedeja made by Iko. This example appears to be wearing a dodot with a kawong pattern. She holds the sampur with her right hand. The dancer wears striking decorations at the junction of her upper arm and shoulder. The pose is that of a serimpi ngentjeng (Helsdingen-Schoevers, Het Serimpi boek, 6). The current location of this specific example is unclear. Jos Schmutzer may have owned several examples. Correspondence with his sister indicates that he gave her a statuette of a dancer in 1925. Source: Schmutzer, Ten Berge, Maas, Europeanisme of katholicisme, 69, Fig. 4.