Smokiana: Historical; Ethnographical

Chapter 18: AFRICA

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A richly illustrated survey documents the history, botany, and ethnography of tobacco and related smoking plants alongside a catalog of pipes and smoking apparatus from around the world. It describes botanical varieties of Nicotiana, regional smoking customs, and the materials and forms of pipes — clay, briar, soapstone, gourd, hookah and opium apparatus — and reproduces historic woodcuts and maker stamps. Organized as descriptive entries with images and captions, the work compares local manufacturing traditions, ceremonial uses, and changing fashions in smoking paraphernalia across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.

AFRICA

Zanzibar at the present moment is a centre of public interest and the example given on the next page is an exceedingly good one, it is of carved wood & has much of the ARAB character in its form. The Large one is of wood also with good ornamentation, the Bowl is 4^in. in diam and the total length 12^in. this is used for smoking Wild Hemp or Bang—and sometimes known as. “LIAMBA.”—it is from NYASSA. LAT 9° S. LONG. 31.^E. This is a pipe of mixed features as the arrangement is strongly allied to the Bushmen on the next page. it is however from N. W of Victoria nyanza UGANDA · NYASSA LAND. The Bowl is of dark clay with a gourd body. HABITAT doubtful