Title
Mortar
Year/Period
late 19th or early 20th century
Region
Toba Batak, North Sumatra
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object Size: 38.0 x 86.0 x 47.0 cm
Accession No.
2013-00953
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the Mandala Foundation
This stone mortar would have been used pound rice to remove the husks. The fact that the Batak took such trouble to carve protective images on what is otherwise a mundane implement testifies to the importance of rice in Batak society. This mortar bears several protective motifs incuding a singa and a lizard.
