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 Sui Sui 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
References
- Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia: Studies in Spatial Anthropology G. Domenig, BRILL, Apr 3, 2014 page 477
- Art of the archaic Indonesians Wolfgang Marschall, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1982 page 49
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