Betel or Paan Box with Inscription and Floral Scrolls
This box is a "pandan," a container for "betel"- thin slices of the nut of the areca palm mixed with spices and lime paste made from ground seashells and wrapped in a leaf of the betel tree. Betel, chewed after meals to help with digestion, was very popular in the Punjab regi...
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3248
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object
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normalized
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Peter Marks Works of Art, New York; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1988, by purchase.
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CC0
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en
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2
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brass