Bowl for serving the ingredients used in betel-chewing (i.e. areca nut, betel leaves, slaked lime, the optional ingredients tobacco, cloves, and gambir, and the areca nut cutter called kacip)
Pedestaled bowl for serving the ingredients used in betel-chewing (i.e. areca nut, betel leaves, slaked lime, the optional ingredients tobacco, cloves, and gambir, and the areca nut cutter called kacip)
Pedestaled bowl for serving the ingredients used in betel-chewing (i.e. areca nut, betel leaves, slaked lime, the optional ingredients tobacco, cloves, and gambir, and the areca nut cutter called kacip)
Bowl for serving food (rice bowl) by "Petrus Regout, Maastricht. Made in Holland" followed by three lines of Javanese script. Apparently produced for the Indonesian market.
These sacred stones (and shells) are believed be able to cure diseases and to neutralise poison. In most applications the stones are immersed in water, and the water is then applied to the skin or consumed