Felt patchwork container with four pouches and long card for fastening

Made:: 1850-1920 in India

maker:: Chum-cha people

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Felt patchwork container with four pouches and long card for fastening, cloth containing steel betel nut, whole & sliced betel nut and rawhide disc, Indian, 1850-1920

Details

Category:: Asian Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A114063

Materials:: cloth

Measurements:: unrolled approx.: length 345 mm
width 143 mm
approx.: thickness 20 mm

type:: container

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Parts

Betel nut cutter in back pocket

Steel betel nut cutter in deapest back pocket

Measurements:: overall: 7 mm x 140 mm x 57 mm,

Materials:: steel

Object Number:: A114063 Pt1

type:: betel-nut cutter

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Disc

Stiff rawhide disc in third pocket

Measurements:: overall: 4 mm, 48 mm,

Materials:: rawhide

Object Number:: A114063 Pt2

type:: accessory

Whole and sliced betel nut

Whole and sliced betel nut in second and third pocket

Object Number:: A114063 Pt3

type:: nut - plant material

Leaves

Object Number:: A114063 Pt4

type:: leaf - plant material

Patchwork container for betel nut and disc

Felt patchwork container with four pouches and long card for fastening, cloth, Indian, for steel betel nut, whole & sliced betel nut and rawhide disc, 1850-1920