Lost in Exquisite Intoxication, 1884
“I turn, I twist, I twirl. I melt, I fade, I dissolve. No diaphanous cloud is so light and airy as I. I admire the ease with which I float. My gracefulness fills me with delight. My body is not Read More …
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Kashmir Nautch Smoking Hookah, 19th century
A Kashmir nautch girl with a hookah – Mortimer Menpes (1860-1938)
Get Up Stand Up, 1995
Get Up, Stand Up Preacher man, don’t tell me, Heaven is under the earth. I know you don’t know What life is really worth. It’s not all that glitters is gold; half the story has never been told: So now Read More …
Israeli women smoking hookah, 1960
Israeli women smoking hookah. Photograph by Paul Schutzer. Israel, May 1960
Reclining Persian woman with hookah, Iran 1901
Portrait of a reclining woman with hookah and Persian mirror, Iran, 1901 photo by Antoin Sevruguin
Nautch girl smoking hookah, 19th Century
Nautch girl smoking hookah, Mughal, India – late 19th century
A couple that hookah’s together, 1850
Portrait of an unidentified man about 40 years of age and a somewhat younger woman, both in Oriental costume, between them is a hookah, the stem of which both are holding [between 1850 and 1860], by Mathew Brady’s studio, New Read More …
The most humble Riza ‘Abbasi drew it, 1622
Nashmi the Archer, Inscribed on the back ‘the most humble Riza ‘Abbasi drew it.’ c.1622 Nashmi the Archer, by Riza ‘Abbasi c.1622 Close up of Nashmi the Archer’s hashish waterpipe
100 Year Old Pure Silver Persian Hookah
100 Year Old Pure Silver Persian Hookah/Nargile
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953 National Geographic, 1953