BRASS BETEL NUT BOXES.....BOOS IN B'LAAN LANGUAGE

BRASS BETEL NUT BOXES OR BOOS are highly decorative boxes and none decorative, containing the necessary substances used in betel nut chewing, can still be found among the highland B'LAAN of Pula Bato, Tampakan, South, Cotabato. Small boxes of the betel nuts are used to accommodate the four ingredients of betel chew, areca nut or bunga, fresh pepper leaves, lime powder or apog, and damp tobacco leaves. Brass betel nut boxes or Boos are skilfully manufactured by various indigenous groups throughout the region. Each compartment contained a different substances used in chewing of betel nut, lime powder or apog, which is often wrapped in a fresh pepper leaf is blended with a charcoal mix to produce a chewing compound...........SMALL ROUND BRASS BOXES...GUFO KAFOL IN B'LAAN LANGUAGE...It is made of two small round brass boxes to accommodate some ingredients for lime powder or apog and damp tobacco leaves found among highland B'LAAN............SMALL BRASS ITEMS FOR GRINDING...GUMDIK NAMA IN B'LAAN LANGUAGE...Are used by B'laans in grinding betel nuts, apog, damp tobacco leaves, and fresh pepper leaves during chewing..............BRASS ITEM FOR SPITTING...used by the indigenous people during spitting...............PHOTOS POSTED ARE COLLECTIONS OF MY FATHER......