Betel or lime box - Batak culture, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia - 20th century

BETEL BOX or LIME BOX
Batak culture, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia
20th century
Buffalo horn and seashell
Height: 12 cm; Width: 4 cm

A small betel or lime box made of brown horn, decorated with incised foliage, two pairs of suspension loops, and whose openwork lid features a zoomorphic figure in the round. Its circular eyes are surrounded by two inlaid shell rings.

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