Door panel with lizard motif "ilik"

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Description

wood,

Door from the facade of a Toba “sopo”. The upper section of this type of building served as a granary for the family rice.

The lizard motif “ilik” was destined to bring the harvest under the benevolent protection of the deity “Boraspati ni Tano”.

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Comparing literature

Barbier, Jean Paul & Douglas Newton (ed.), Islands and Ancestors, Munich 1988, p. 220, Plate 14

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