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Set of five betel scissors.

L. 12.5 cm to 26 cm

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INDONESIA and BURMA Set of five betel scissors. L. 12.5 cm to 26 cm Consultant : Jean-Pierre LACOSTE 06 61 43 63 46 - [email protected]

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INDONESIA and BURMA Set of five betel scissors. L. 12.5 cm to 26 cm Consultant : Jean-Pierre LACOSTE 06 61 43 63 46 - [email protected]

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A CARVED WOOD LID FOR A LIME JAR '' KAPUR SIRIH'' Indonesia, North Sumatra, Toba-Batak, 19th c. or 20th c. H. 23 cm A plastically carved lid for a lime vessel for making sirih, tagan. It is made of patinated light wood and depicts a figure riding on a singa with a high-tied mop of hair. The thick organic patina indicates many years of use and ‘sacrifice’. High-ranking objects were sacrificed at regular intervals with alcoholic beverages, the blood of farm animals and saliva mixed with betel, all substances with a soul of their own. The front legs of the singa, which has a raised tail, resemble human arms; the hind legs are quite realistic horse legs. The number of hybrid forms the singa can take is almost endless. The vessel to which this lid belonged probably consisted of a bamboo internode. Betel is a popular stimulant throughout South East Asia. The unripe betel nuts are usually cut into small pieces with special scissors, crushed and rolled into leaves coated with slaked lime, which do not come from the betel palm, but from the betel pepper (Piper betle), which is then known as betel bites (sirih). The crushed betel nut, which has a vasodilatory effect, was mixed with lime paste to make awls and chewed. The container of this lid may have been used to ‘prepare’ the betel paste. Because of the bitter flavour, spices such as peppermint, liquorice or chewing tobacco were often added. Betel containers were usually made of horn or bamboo, but among the Toba-Batak they could also be made of brass and were valued items of prestige. As they were usually carried in skin bags (salipi), from which only the lid protruded, the body was often not elaborately decorated. From an old German private collection, assembled since the 1950s - Minor wear, partly slightly chipped Publ.: IFICAH (2018): Die Verwandtschaft im Nacken, Wohlesbostel. p. 80, 81

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