A Pygmy women smoking bhang, 1982
“A Pygmy women smoking bhang. The pipe is so long that she had her kid light the bowl with a coal from the fire.” Epulu Pygmy village, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Congo 1982
Category: Photographs
University of Idaho’s first greenhouse, 1896
“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden University of Idaho’s first greenhouse, 1896
Rolling, Algeria Postcard 1900
I’m not saying I know what this kid’s rolling, I’m just saying I know the smile… photo by Jean Geiser- Algeria around 1900 – postcard
Opium dealer – Iran, 1910
Opium dealer – Iran, c. 1910
Hashish Smoker at Music Festival, 1865
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Dylan Music festival in Egypt, smoking Hashish from a hookah c.1865 Folk festival at Ramadan. Hookah smoker c.1865
French Postcard, 1910
“Le galant Janissaire” Postcard, France. Ca. 1910
Charas Officer, 1929
Why post this guys picture you ask? In 1929 this guy had an amazing job even by today’s standards. His Job title? “Charas-Officer”, Quality control if you will, for the charas (hashish) imported to India from Badakhshan and Kashmir. Growing Read More …
Ottoman Woman -hookah- (nargilé). c 1870
Ottoman Woman with hookah (nargilé), Photographed by J. Pascal Sebah 1870
Arab Muscle Dancers, 1898
“Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone, Uncool. Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools.” by Alice Walker, ‘Be Nobody’s Darling’ Arab Muscle Dancers -Stereoview coverted to anaglyph, 1898, B. W. Kilburn Arab Muscle Dancers Read More …
Daguerreotype Woman, 1843
‘A woman smoking hookah’ daguerreotype taken by Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangeyc, Cairo, Egypt 1843