Title
Medicine container
Year/Period
19th century
Region
Karo Batak, North Sumatra
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 14.0 x 14.0 x 27.0 cm
Accession No.
2013-00949
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the Mandala Foundation
Batak priests known as datu stored their medicinal concoctions in ceramic or earthen jars with carved wooden stoppers, known as guri-guri. The stoppers of medicine containers were frequently elaborately carved with figures of mythical creatures and ancestors. This container has a stopper carved with the head of a chicken, a common motif in Batak sculpture.
