Description
For those who enjoy getting lost in anthropology, it can be fascinating to see how certain aspects of culture, whether items or art or bits of language are similar between different people groups, something like following the footprint hints of human cultural movement. This piece is one of those very examples.
It can span the possibility of being found and utilized in various countries such as late 19th century Burma where it would be a hand carved and hand painted wood lidded Buddhist offering box. These boxes were given to the monasteries by wealthy families in order to gain merit. They were treasured by the monks, and used only on special occasions.
You may also find these antique handpainted wooden lacquerware pieces as spice boxes in Afghanistan Pakistan.
Or, cross the border into India and these would be Indian Chapati Bread Boxes.
This piece could be from anyone of those regions for any one of those purposes as it is all the same construction and same decorative style, and it is a FABULOUS find for the discerning ethnographic collector!
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