Wartime Puffs, 1914
Indian Army soldier smoking a hookah at a WW1 camp in New Forest, England 1914
Tag: India
Woodworkers Hookah, 1870
‘A lacquer worker and turner finishing a hookah’, India 1870 “The object to be lacquered is turned from hard wood, usually shisham [Dalbergia]or box. After being smoothed and cleaned it is again fixed in the turners’ frame (a kind of Read More …
Old Woman Hicks Tube Pipe, 1920’s
‘Old Woman Hicks Smoking Her Pipe’ – She is wearing calico dress with blanket around her lower half, her beaded pipebag is in front of her, leather satchel by her side. Pipe looks to be wrapped with leather or cord. Read More …
Jam Jar Hookah, 1915
Jam Jar Hookah: “Wounded Indian smoking through a jam jar”. During WW1 at a hospital in Brighton, England August 1915
Bangladeshi Coconut Waterpipe’s, 1860
‘Group of Bangladeshi hookah makers, demonstrating various stages in the manufacture of waterpipes from Coconut Shells’. Eastern Bengal, India 1860
Hippie Trail Kitty, 1971
‘Hippie girl Smoking hashish while playing with a local cat sitting with locals under the pergola of a restaurant’ in India, 1971
To Farm Insanity Plant, 1909
To Farm Insanity Plant Deadliest Vegetable Known to be introduced into Texas. “The deadly marihuana plant is to be introduced into Texas from Mexico by special permission of the state agricultural department. Ernest Love, who conducts an agricultural experimental station Read More …
Fakir Smoking Ganja, 1889
“Fakir Smoking Ganja (Indian Hemp)”, India, 1889
Low-caste Bengalees, 1878
“Low-caste Bengalees,” from ‘India and its Native Princes’ by Louis Rousselet, 1878 “Low caste inhabitants of Cawnpore”, India 1881 engraving print
Nautch: Dancers in Kashmir, 1928
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 …