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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2726317, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous box, Nate. I also love the peacock man on the base.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=12007]@blooey[/USER] is right, it is a betel box made by the Shan People of Burma/Myanmar.</p><p>The Shan are a sub-group of the Tai, a people of Chinese origin who moved south and are spread out over South and mainland Southeast Asia. So from northeastern India to Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Southwest China.</p><p>Shan is the Burmese name, btw. The Shan call themselves Tai. Internationally they are either called Shan or Tai Shan. This is just for the Burmese sub-group.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being spread out over such an enormous area, Tai culture varies from one place to another. This box is typical Tai Shan, so Burmese. Which doesn&#039;t mean it couldn&#039;t have been made 2 miles across the border, either in India, Thailand, Laos, or China.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The style is Burmese Tai Shan though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Burmese Tai Shan have a peacock dance, maybe the peacock man is a dancer?</p><p><br /></p><p>The different Tai groups and their arts are often mixed up. The betel boxes of the Tai Lao of Laos are often round, but usually not this &#039;biscuit barrel&#039; shape. Tai Lao betel boxes are a related shape to Thai boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is difficult for those who don&#039;t read Tai to tell the different scripts apart, especially when they are hand written/engraved.</p><p>Looking at the alphabet chart below, I&#039;d say the text isn&#039;t Lao Tai or Laotian.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Tai_Scripts_Sample.png/220px-Tai_Scripts_Sample.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_languages" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_languages" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_languages</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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