Alongside more respectable versions bearing animal and bird motifs or plain geometric designs sits a curious collection of erotic nutcutters. In her essay Betel Chewing in Kāvya Literature and Indian Art (2016), philologist Hermina Cielas elaborates on these ingredients. This framing corresponds with the imagery of the erotic nutcutters at Kelkar Museum, indicating the mithuna as their model. The make and metals of the erotic nutcutters of Kelkar Museum distinguish them as leisure objects of a superior class. As Gowda observed, once the Portuguese merchants introduced tobacco, the complex pleasures of the areca nut were relegated to the habit of tobacco.