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Hard Bargaining in Sumatra is an artfully written and penetrating examination of the interactions between Western travelers and Toba Batak wood carvers in the souvenir marketplaces of Samosir Island which sits in the middle of Lake Toba, one of the largest and deepest high mountain lakes in the world.
Inhabiting the lake and its environs, the Toba Batak are the best-known of the five Batak tribes inhabiting northern Sumatra.
Batak woodcarving, richly ornamented with mosaics, serpents, double spirals, lizards, life-giving female breasts, and elongated dark-colored monsters’ heads (singa) with bulging eyes, is especially sophisticated.
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