Support de boule "baba ni onggang" ·  Indonésie - Sumatra, Batak · ID: 3053148

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.

Littérature comparée

Sibeth, Achim, Mit den Ahnen leben, Stuttgart 1990, p. 162