Specifications

• Length:  cm
• Material: water buffalo horn, wood
• Position: 
• Gender: 
• Indigenous name: naga morsarang, sahan

Provenance

Private collection, The Hague, 1970s.

Publications

Ref.: Sibeth, Achim & Bruce W. Carpenter (2007), Batak Sculpture.

Additional information

A Toba Batak medicine horn, one of the most conspicuous paraphernalia of a Batak priest. This one has a finely carved singa-head as stopper with four anthropomorphic figures on top of the head and neck. Claws of the singa flank the extended tongue.