Among the larger wooden Batak sculptures carved are decorative, mask-like figures known coloquially as singa, which are customarily attached to the ends of the main support beams of the ancestral house. These carvings are meant to represent the naga padoha, an enormous primeval dragon subdued by the goddess Si Boru Deak Parujar. The earth is said to rest upon the back of the naga padoha, just as the Batak house symbolically rests on the backs of these figures. This pair of singa are unusually tall and have attached horns which make them particularly distinctive.
