A domestic chest used for storing food or valuables. The hombung could also double as a bed in noble houses. For a very similar example, vide Barbier (1988: 58, fig. 61).

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Barbier, Jean Paul. “A Stone Rider of the Batak of Sumatra.” In Islands

and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia, edited by Jean Paul

Barbier and Douglas Newton, 50–65. Munich: Prestel, 1988.

Sibeth, Achim. The Batak: Peoples of the Island of Sumatra. New York:

Thames and Hudson, 1991, fig. 188.