Traditionally identified as a Persian woman’s dokha pipe, this five-inch copper-and-enamel artifact reveals the private rituals, decorative arts, gender history, and political importance of tobacco in Qajar Iran.
Tobacco, Technology, and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century China Often mislabeled as an opium pipe, this compact brass vessel was an
Discover the construction and history of a Chinese bamboo water pipe reportedly brought home from China by an American World War II veteran.
Discover the craftsmanship and cultural history behind an elaborate 19th-century Indian huqqa decorated with peacocks, flowering vines, chains, and hand-worked metal relief.
