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“Turkish visitors describe smoker’s pipe for Mrs. Tinkler (right) and her daughter, during a visit at the Tinkler home. The young women from Turkey are visiting the United States under the Experiment in International Living program” Denver, Colorado August Read More …
‘Hemp Pipe’ “Cow’s horn with opening at tip closed at base; hole bond is concave surface of horn for insertion of a short cane tube on which fits a well made pottery bowl with flaring mouth. This is the simplest Read More …
“Low-caste Bengalees,” from ‘India and its Native Princes’ by Louis Rousselet, 1878 “Low caste inhabitants of Cawnpore”, India 1881 engraving print
‘Indigenes fumant le Liamba’ (Indigenous smoking Cannabis) Postcard from Congo, Africa pre1919
“Homemade Marijuana Pipe” from a press release photo in Gulfport, Florida. 1974 Gulfport- What do a wine bottle, a piece of construction pipe and some aluminum foil have in common? They can all be used to make marijuana pipes. Read More …
Nautch: Dancers in Kashmir “The women of the Vale of Kashmir, one of the loveliest places in the world, have long been considered among the most beautiful in India. The languorous and exotic nautch dancers, with their jeweled headdresses and Read More …
The Women of Algiers by Eugène Delacroix in 1834
‘Man with water pipe’, Iran 1880-1890. Photo by Antoin Sevruguin
Two Persian girls smoking a hookah by Antoin Sevruguin in Iran, 1890’s
Miner Toi Kee displays narcissus grown for the Chinese New Year celebration holding a water pipe and incense in Jacksonville, Oregon 1850’s “A genus that is very complex and burdened with numerous uncertainties” — Schultes & Schultes description of Read More …