Context (Amendments / updates)
CF. E 1911.694, another betel box from Borneo [British North Borneo]
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 1938.518 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

Context (Amendments / updates)
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 28/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Description (Physical description)
Chalapa. Octagonal box with a hinged lid. One of three three small boxes originally held within 1938.518 A. The corners of the octagonal box are ridged, and there is green corrosion to the hinge.
Event Date 28/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton