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]

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

See also

• Waruga, sarcophagi in northern Sumatra