Medicine Container Item Number: 3563/2 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Horn container with carved wooden lid. The small horn appear to have a boar bristle fringe at the end. The carved wooden stopper is larger than the horn container. The stopper has a humanoid face on the front with an owl-like head above it; five human figures are carved in a row up the back, each with their hands on the shoulders of the one in front. The stopper is tied onto the horn with a thin fibre cord. There are holes drilled through the lid and horn for securing the closure, but the pin is missing.
Batak medicine container.
Collected by Geoffrey Hainsworth while working in Indonesia in the early 1980s.