Musical Nautch, 1870’s
‘Group of Nautch Girls with Musicians’ Kashmir, India 1870’s
Tag: hookah
Smoking Contest, 1959
‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959 Honorable mention to the guy who showed up with the homemade jug hookah!
Quetta Session, 1973
Photograph/Artwork by Artist Sigmar Polke in Quetta, Pakistan. 1973/1974
Bedouin Smoker, 1920
A Bedouin is seen smoking his water-pipe in a coffee house in Deir ez-Zor on the Euphrates River in Syria. 1920
Portrait of his Fiance, 1880
Photographer – Ali Sami, Portrait of his Fiance, Istanbul, Turkey 1880
The Prime Minister’s Cow, 1970
“I was in Turkey and these guys invited me into one of the coffee shops and passed the hookah around and I smoked it. What was in it, I don’t know, probably some hash. Same thing in India (and) China. Read More …
The First Stoned Selfie, 1843
The First Stoned Selfie Just a few short years after the American Robert Cornelius took the first selfie in Philadelphia in 1839, French painter Camille Dolard would take another photographic first for selfie’s… The first stoned selfie! In 1843 using Read More …
Stoned in the Studio, 1867
“A studio portrait of a Kathiawar Rajput gentleman posed with a hookah.” Bombay, India – 1867
Chicago World’s Fair, 1893
“If it comes to please then it will be through the process similar to the taste for opium or hashish.” – observations of a Worlds Fair visitor in 1893 Crowd waiting for the opening of the gates at the Read More …
Dreams
Dreams by Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter (1844 – 1913)