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  pok lok

 

Thailand

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.