Brass betel nut box
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Brass rectangular box, w/ 4 tenon jointed wood pieces inside, hinged lid, banded.
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Identifier
12-61-70/84487
Origin
Oceania, Philippines, Mindanao
Materials
Brass
Physical Dimensions
Overall: 13.8 x 24.6 x 12.5 cm (5 7/16 x 9 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Donor: William Cameron Forbes | Collector: William Cameron Forbes
From the Peabody Museum archives:
“captured” by a member for the Philippines Constabulary “at Margosatubig in March 1905 when Dato Mustapha was killed. Most likely by John R. White, who took part in numerous engagements against the rebellious Moros on Mindanao and Jolo between 1903 and 1906.
Archived label of betel nut box, 12-61- 70/84487, William Cameron Forbes Collection, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 24. John Roberts White, Bullets and Bolos (New York: Century Co., 1928), 190.
More information here:
Flattening Identity: Colonial Accumulation and Hidden
Archives at Harvard's Philippine Collection
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/868495
From the Peabody Museum archives:
“captured” by a member for the Philippines Constabulary “at Margosatubig in March 1905 when Dato Mustapha was killed. Most likely by John R. White, who took part in numerous engagements against the rebellious Moros on Mindanao and Jolo between 1903 and 1906.
Archived label of betel nut box, 12-61- 70/84487, William Cameron Forbes Collection, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 24. John Roberts White, Bullets and Bolos (New York: Century Co., 1928), 190.
More information here:
Flattening Identity: Colonial Accumulation and Hidden
Archives at Harvard's Philippine Collection
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/868495
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Not on display
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“Brass betel nut box,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed April 24, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/13199.
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