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and boxes for betel. These betel boxes usually contain 
compartments, and are sometimes inlaid with designs 
in softer metal. The entire art is clearly of Asiatic 

Fig. 24. Moro Betel Boxes Cast in Brass. The lower is inlaid with soft 
white metal. 
origin and even its simpler forms must be looked 
upon as local degenerations and not as truly native 
industries. 
The one metal which the Filipino can possibly lay 
claim to have discovered the use and working of, is 

