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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4414376, member: 2844&quot;]Not really.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Carving is still done by hand, and people in the region had access to metal implements ever since ca 1000 BC, the Dong Son period.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a common misconception that the Batak were an isolated tribe. They were a Hindu kingdom, and once part of the powerful early Medieval Sumatran Srivijaya empire which ruled over part of SE Asia.</p><p><br /></p><p>You only show parts of the item, but I wonder if it was originally a lid?</p><p><br /></p><p>There was tourism before that, but most of it domestic. Early 20th century European colonials from Java or southern Sumatra wanting to see the &#039;wild parts&#039; of Indonesia, like Bali and inland Sumatra.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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