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: Flo Sutton

Context (Amendments / updates)
CF. E 1911.694, another betel box from Borneo [British North Borneo].
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: rachel hand

Description (CMS Description)
catalogue card notes for 1938.518 A-D: 'Brass betel box ("chalapa") containing three small boxes for lime, tobacco, etc. The large box is probably of Brunei manufacture. " Betel box, usually having. . three small pots containing lime, areca nut, and gambier and areca nut rice, ' kachip'.
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.1973.20 | Remedial
Event Date 23/3/2020
Author: Kirstie French

Context (Amendments / updates)
In June 1974, a fourth box was connected to 1938.513 A-C 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, 1938.518 D.
Event Date 31/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton