opium tweezers

Opium tweezers made of iron. Label: Oval red label handwritten with a description of how the apparatus (6.12.65/613 - 617) would have been used to smoke opium: 'Opium smoking / apparatus. The / smoker takes a piece / of opium the size of a / pea, places it over the / hole in the bowl of the / pipe, presses it / firmly & with the / pricker makes a / hole through it, / continuous // with the hole in / the bowl. Then / holding a piece of / live charcoal with the / tongs over the opium / he inhales the fumes / through the pipe. / Persia.'

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
6.12.65/615
Date
late 19th or early 20th century
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 177.8 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
iron
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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