This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Podom" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
The kepala negri (head of the village) of Lumban Sui Sui on Samosir standing near a podom, a stone sculpture, in which ancestor skulls are buried circa 1918, photo by Tassilo Adam

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

References

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