Podom

{{Short description|Sarcophagi in Sumatra}}

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File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het hoofd van het Toba-Batak dorp Loemban Soei Soei op Samosir staat bij een stenen sarcofaag van de familie Sidabutar waarin voorouderschedels bewaard worden TMnr 10001711.jpg]]

Podom are sculpted sarcophagi traditional to the Toba Batak of Sumatra. They have the forms of longhouse roofs or boats.Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia: Studies in Spatial Anthropology G. Domenig, Brill, 2014 p. 477 {{ISBN?}} They are made of stone which is also used for rice mortars (losung batu) and funeral urns (parholian), and statuary[https://books.google.com/books?id=YB8xAQAAIAAJ Art of the archaic Indonesians] Wolfgang Marschall, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1982 p. 49 {{ISBN?}}