Belt
Made from pigs’ bones, this pagar served to protect a hunter against bullets. Batak script was largely restricted to priests (datu) who would use it to teach, and also to write magical spells, laments and calendars. Few people can read this script today, it’s a language that will become extinct.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 12/1936/15
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- SE
- Material
- bone (pig)pigment
- Common Name
- belt
- Simple Name
- amulet belt
- Production County
- Sumatra
- Production Country
- Indonesia
- Production Year High
- 1936
