Borneo - Betel box

An octagonal brass betel box, with a stepped, hinged lid. With an applied filigree work design in panels of scrolls and applied small bosses.These boxes were used to store the areca nut (sometimes known as the betel nut) which would be wrapped in a betel leaf with lime paste and other ingredients, often tobacco, for chewing.

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