Podom

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 statuary[2]

See also

  • Waruga, sarcophagi in northern Sumatra

References

  1. ^ Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia: Studies in Spatial Anthropology G. Domenig, Brill, 2014 p. 477
  2. ^ Art of the archaic Indonesians Wolfgang Marschall, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1982 p. 49
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