Collector's Lot of Betel Nut Boxes and Accessories,including large betel nut container, cast bronze with silver inlay in "okir" pattern, Maranao people, Mindanao, Philippines; a bronze betel box with filigree motifs of fern whorls and rice grain stalks, squares, diamonds and triangles and rectangular patterns. Inside the box is a lift-out rectangular shallow container with hinged covers for three compartments to store lime, areca nuts, tobacco and betel leaves, ingredients for betel chew, local bronze old repair at the bottom, metal pins on the hinges have been replaced, late 19th-early 20th c., Bilaan or Bagobo people, south central Mindanao, Philippines; portable bronze double octagonal betel box with filigree motifs of fern whorls and rice grain stalks which opens to four containers, late 19th-early 20th c., Bilaan or Bagobo people, south central Mindanao, Philippines; and betel nut cutter, Indonesia. Range in Size: 3'' x 4.5'' x 2'' (8 x 11 x 5 cm) to 4'' x 8'' x 4'' (10 x 20 x 10 cm).

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