Context (References)
Typescript autobiography by I.H.N. Evans: "the Years Behind Me". A copy is held in MAA's archives (BA5/9/4), ?1948.
Event Date 1948
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Production / use)
note from record of 1938.490: 'Part of a collection of brass objects comprising 1938.490-525. Most of these objects are no longer manufactured, at any rate in the forms here presented, though they are still much used, and prized, by the natives.'
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Ivor Hugh Norman Evans.
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card notes for 1938.513 A-D: 'Four octagonal, brass betel nut boxes, possibly of Sulu (Suluk) make. Purchased in the Tempassuk District, B.N. Borneo. / A: pattern on lid in form of foliate swastika. B: some patterns lozenge-shaped. C: with raised scroll ornamentation. / Former nos. Dep.1920.41, 42 & 43. / [in a different hand:] '38.513 d found June 1974 Octagonal box with ridges at corners [indistinct signature - possibly 'HYR']."
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Chalapa. One of four octagonal, brass betel nut boxes, with a hinged lid. The box has scroll patterns in low relief on the top of the lid and on the box sides. There is a hole in the centre of the lid, from which a small lump as a handle has become detached.
Event Date 28/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Amendments / updates)
In June 1974, a fourth box was connected to this accession number in error, as the number 1938.518 was misread for 1939.513. The box purported to be 1938.513 D has now been reunited with its correct accession number.
Event Date 31/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Acquisition Details)
In 1938 Ivor Hugh Norman Evans sold his house in Oulton Broad, Suffolk, and moved permanently to Sabah, Borneo, and 'presented all the ethnographica that I had to the Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge, and the best of my Chinese porcelain, except for a few pet pieces, to the Fitzwilliam Museum' (Evans unpublished ms, ?1948, p. 562)
Event Date 22/12/2022
Author: Flo Sutton