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Podom

Podom are sculpted sarcophagi traditional to the Toba Batak of Sumatra. They have the forms of longhouse roofs or boats. They are made of stone which is also used for rice mortars and funeral urns (parholian), and statuary

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The kepala negri (head of the village) of Lumban Suhi Suhi on Samosir standing near a podom, a stone sculpture, in which ancestor skulls are buried circa 1918, photo by Tassilo Adam source ↗

Podom are sculpted sarcophagi traditional to the Toba Batak of Sumatra. They have the forms of longhouse roofs or boats.1 They are made of stone which is also used for rice mortars (losung batu) and funeral urns (parholian), and statuary2

See also

See also

  • Waruga, sarcophagi in northern Sumatra
References

References

  1. Domenig, G. (3 April 2014). Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia: Studies in Spatial Anthropology. BRILL. p. 477. ISBN 978-90-04-27407-5.
  2. Stöhr, Waldemar (1981). Art of the Archaic Indonesians. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. p. 49.