Sibeth (1991) relates how such figures were placed on the stone lids of the large stone sarcophagi used for second burials on the Samosir Peninsula and the area immediately around Lake Toba. Second burials would usually take place at least one generation after the death of an individual held in sufficiently high esteem and whose family had the necessary financial means. Sibeth illustrates two similar figures, one on the famous stone sarcophagus of the Sidabutar marga in Tomok, Samosir (p.80, fig.76) and another taken from a photograph in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (p.81, fig.80)