Tobacco Box with Cover
late 19th - early 20th century
Ainu
Asian Art
Until the early twentieth century Ainu men smoked tobacco from long-stemmed pipes that they carried daily, along with a long pipe holder that was tucked into one’s sash and a tobacco box that would hang by a chord from the pipe holder. The small bowl of the pipe fit into the hole at the end of the pipe holder. It is likely that the Ainu people developed a taste for tobacco through the influence of Chinese merchants, their primary trading partners for centuries.
- Maker/Artist
- Ainu
- Classification
- Smoking/Drugs
- Formatted Medium
- Wood
- Medium
- wood
- Locations
- Place made: Northern region, Japan
- Dimensions
- 3 3/4 x 4 5/16 in. (9.5 x 10.9 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 12.473a
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herman Stutzer
- Exhibitions
- Arts of Japan
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Asian Galleries, Arts of Japan, 2nd floor
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