This wooden post is considered a richly carved cultural object of the Garo tribe, one of the major hill tribes of Meghalaya in Northeast India. The Garo people are famed for their oral traditions, agriculture, and communitarian life. Among the important aspects of their society is the "nokpante," which functions like a bachelor fraternity housing boys that are taught into adulthood.The post is carved of a single piece of wood, revealing a high degree of Garo craftsmanship in wood carving. The heavy use of artistic expression in shaping the piece towards a flat circular base and a bifurcated top has some intent upon stability and symbolic placement. The middle portion bears decorations in the form of two bulbous shapes, framed within eleven bars each; some interior phenomenon amongst Garo is possibly intervening here, for this very design might symbolize community ties or ritual belief. To add to the other basic ornamental value, the discs appear to endow spiritual significance.

Such wooden posts are placed inside the bachelors' houses (nokpante), where the posts serve the dual purposes of supporting the structure of the dormitory and marking their identity, masculinity, and status. Such dormitories were the centers of Garo tribal life in the training of boys in survival skills, folklore, music, and warrior traditions.At present, this post, which is now housed in the Indian Museum, Kolkata, forms part of the ethnological collection; it speaks for the Garo tribe's architectural style and symbolic significance, being a tangible reflection of a community lifestyle that is, in contemporary times, itself undergoing change.