Tangiers Dancer, 1913

Musicians play and smoke while woman dances, hand colored Postcard from Tangier, Morocco 1913  

Angola Hemp Pipe, 1900

‘Hemp Pipe’ “Cow’s horn with opening at tip closed at base; hole bond is concave surface of horn for insertion of a short cane tube on which fits a well made pottery bowl with flaring mouth. This is the simplest Read More …

Oregon Narcissus, 1850

Miner Toi Kee displays narcissus grown for the Chinese New Year celebration holding a water pipe and incense in Jacksonville, Oregon 1850’s     “A genus that is very complex and burdened with numerous uncertainties” — Schultes & Schultes description of Read More …

Smoking Contest, 1959

‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959       Honorable mention to the guy who showed up with the homemade jug hookah!