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Hookah (Smoking pipe)
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University
Ahmedabad, India
Hookah is a smoking pipe used to smoke tobacco. It has an earthen container at the top to hold the tobacco and a container at the base to hold water. The smoke from the top passes through the water, where particles of ash are filtered out. This filtered smoke is then pulled through the pipe.
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Details
- Title: Hookah (Smoking pipe)
- Location: Malerkotla, Sangrur, 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: Malwa
- Metal Craft Technique: Casting
- Earth Craft Technique: Firing
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