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 1938.522 'Brass betel box. " Small betel box containing small lime pot. Probably [from] Brunei, though the incised pattern on the lid is uncharacteristically Bruneian; but the type of metal and casting procedure seem to suggest [that it is of] Brunei origin."'
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old paper note contained inside 1938.522.1 reads: 'Betel-nut box / Tuaran Dist. / B.n. Borneo'
Event Date 28/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Description (Physical description)
Chalapa. Small box for lime, originally contained within betel box 1938.522.1. This box is octagonal. with a lid that was originally hinged but is now detached. The box is covered with green corrosion and white remains of lime.
Event Date 28/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton