Explore the history of smoking through antique pipes, hookahs, tobacco artifacts, museum objects, cultural traditions, craftsmanship, and the people who used them. History of Smoke documents smoking culture across centuries and civilizations through original research and objects from the museum collection.
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.
