Piso Podang Batak or Borneo?

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This photo is quite famous. Titled the radja of Dolok and his followers.
He is a Batak ruler with his helpers and his weapons of state. In the middle the Leming Radja of which I own several. To the far right a Podang.
The story was that the podand could respresent a ruler - it was sent by ship to other rulers to represent himself - or so the story goes....