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Betel nut offering box
Betel nut offering box
Betel nut offering box
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentAsia

Betel nut offering box

NameBox
Place madePHILIPPINES, Southeast Asia, ASIA
MediumBetelnut, brass
Dimensions1 3/16 × 8 × 4 3/16 in. (3 × 20.3 × 10.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Langhorne
Object numberA.1950.10.1V
DescriptionBox, betelnut, belonging to a More?. Brass, ornamented with filigree scrolls. Handles and hinged cover. Inner tray with 4 compartments and 4 hinged covers, incised motif of cross-bars. Philippines.
Box
Artist unrecorded
Jewish tramp art box
Artist unrecorded
20th-mid 20th Century
Miss Yamaguchi (山口さん)
Yoshitoku Doll Company
ca. October 1927
Basket
c. 1920