ANTIQUE 1800’s PRIMITIVE WOOD DISH WITH HANDLE IN THE SHAPE OF A BIRD’S HEAD: INCLUDED IS A BUFFALO BONE & WOOD POUNDER, BOTH COLLECTED FROM A SHAMAN IN LOMBOK ISLAND, INDONESIA, 30 YEARS AGO, USED FOR BETEL HABIT & POTIONS.

2 wonderful older items to add to any Betel habit collection: Collected from the Sasak people  of Lombok, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Very rare highly collectible antique wooden dish estimated to be 100 years old or more, collected in Lombok Island, Indonesia. It was used by a Shaman to crush herbs, magic powders, and betel-lime concoctions, with the help of a buffalo bone and wood pounder or crusher that we purchased as well and left it with. The crusher is not as old as the dish. Both were handmade at different times. DISH IS 11 1/2" LONG WITH HANDLE INCLUDED. DIAMETER IS 6 1/2" AN BOWL IS 3" HIGH. Also, with it, a wonderful Vintage Sirih pounder or Pestle, hand carved out of bone and wood and used in the preparation of a Betel Nut Chew, The Pelacok (pronounced Pelor-choc) is a tool used by older people when they lose their teeth and can no longer chew betel nut, the hard seed of the Areca palm. It is made to insert inside a deep mortar. The betel chewer inserts the betel nut i