Southeast Asia, Indonesia, North Sumatra, Batak people of the Lake Toba area. A medicine container made from a bone tube with a carved wooden stopper in the form of a figure, with a small figural pendant hanging on a cord. A calendar is engraved on the outside.

Batak datu (priest-healers) kept potent medicines and magical substances in containers of horn, bone and bamboo. Their calendars (porhalaan) were used to find auspicious days for rituals and undertakings. Field collected, Sumatra, 1994.