Bullet retainer "baba ni onggang" · Indonesia - Sumatra, Batak · ID: 3053148
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Provenance
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, GermanySize
H: 15,5 cm
H: 6.1 inch
Description
wood, cord,
“Baba ni onggan”, which roughly means “beak of the hornbill”, were used to store self-cast bullets. With two fingers on both sides of the “beak” the bullets could easily be pulled out.
The object Bullet retainer “baba ni onggang” with the object ID 3053148 was last part of the auction Auction 106 at April 25, 2026 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 142.
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Comparing literature
Sibeth, Achim, Mit den Ahnen leben, Stuttgart 1990, p. 162