Barwang = Barong, both names are used, and I guess Barwang is/was the local spelling.
Helen Ibbitson Jessup gives the date for Singhabarwang as 1549, at another place 16th cent. Of course it could be an error (which some other writers, like James Bennett in "Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art", have repeated). Of course the carriage was refurbished many times, last time in 1910.
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