A
wooden bell, known in northern Thailand as
pok lok. It has an elongated box-like shape,
with two or sometimes three long, wooden clappers, that are vertically lined
up next to each other on the inside, and stick extensively out from under
the edge of the bell. It is used to hang around the neck of mainly large
domesticated, usually free-grazing animals, such as
Zebu
cattle and water
buffaloes. When they move about, the bell makes a wooden pok-pok sound,
hence its name. |