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Hookah (Smoking pipe)
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University
Ahmedabad, India
The earthen container at the top which holds tobacco is known as a chillum. Burning coal is kept on top of the chillum which also burns the tobacco inside. Male members of a family or a larger community would sit on a takht or manja while smoking a hookah.
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Details
- Title: Hookah (Smoking pipe)
- Location: Burj Teheldas, Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab
- Type: Vastu (Object)
- Contributor: Rishav Jain, Mansi S Rao, Ben Cartwright and Abhishek Ruikar
- Rights: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University and South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection (SADACC) Trust
- Medium: Earth (Terracotta), Metal (Brass, Copper), Wood
- Wood Craft Technique: Bending, Turning
- Region: Doaba
- Metal Craft Technique: Casting
- Earth Craft Technique: Firing
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