Arms, Armour, Asian and Ethnographic Antiques

Old Batak Carved Bone Ritual Calendar Box w/ Finials

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Start price: $300

Estimated price: $400 - $600

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Southeast Asia or Oceania, Indonesia, North Sumatra, Batak Peoples of the region. Finely carved calendar with bone central shaft used as a medicine box and intricately carved with the Porhalaan calendar of the peoples. The ends human/animal transformational finials with large headdress secured with bone pins to create a medicine box like container. Size overall 7 3/4" L x 3 1/4" H