In Muslim communities of Lombok, traditional ceremonial processions held on special occasions, such as weddings, communal circumcisions, or the welcoming of distinguished visitors, involved carrying the principal human participants on litters or palanquins outfitted with a decorative seat or mount. Several types of brightly painted and adorned mounts were used, including the buraq, the female-headed steed that carried Muhammad to heaven. In wedding processions the bride is carried on the buraq by a group of four dancers, followed by a gamelan orchestra. Every week after Friday prayers during the month of the Prophet’s birthday, processions through some villages featured young boys riding a pair of male and female buraq, and a pair of jaran wooden horses, also carried by dancers and followed by a gamelan.