Antique Burmese Tiffin

Can't help buying travel souvenirs so I lugged this Shan lacquer tiffin back from Yangon. In the old days, Burmese ladies used to fill these tiffins with food, place them on their heads and walk long distances to temples (...visions of Kipling's Mandalay Girl...) but nowadays, they rarely make these big simple ones but mostly the ornate types for decorative purposes.