Accession No

1938.525 B


Description

Anak chalapa. One of a pair of brass boxes, rectangular, with bevelled corners and a hinged lid. Box A is slightly taller and narrower than box B.


Place

Asia; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Borneo; Sabah; Kota Belud District


Period


Source

Evans, Ivor Hugh Norman [field collector and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

1938.525 B; MAA: D 1920.57 [previous MAA number]


Cultural Affliation

?Ilanon; ?Illanum [historical]


Material

Metal; Copper Alloy; Brass


Local Term

Anak chalapa


Measurements

39mm x 28mm x 58mm


Events

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


Context (Production / use)
Two small, brass boxes for tobacco and gambir. Possibly of Illanum manufacture. " To keep tobacco and gambier, and normally placed in another large betel box. Due to its plain and simple look, difficult to judge its origin but likely to be of Brunei wo
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: maa


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


Description (Physical description)
Anak chalapa. One of a pair of brass boxes, rectangular, with bevelled corners and a hinged lid. Box A is slightly taller and narrower than box B.
Event Date 20/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton


FM:300003

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