Medicine Container Item Number: 3563/3 a-c from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Horn-shaped bone container with carved wooden lid. Small bone container with human figure carved into pointed end; hollowed out at wider end. Wooden stopper (part b) is larger than the container. The carving on the stopper has a rider on a 4-legged animal; the animal has a humanoid face and horns; below the creature's face is a small sitting figure. The stopper and the container rim both have holes drilled through them for securing with a small wooden peg (part c) with a flattened, round end.
Batak medicine container.
Collected by Geoffrey Hainsworth while working in Indonesia in the early 1980s.