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Description: | 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.'
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 6.12.65/615
caption: General view of label of Horniman Museum object no 6.12.65/615 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | opium tweezers iron Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-73898 | Go to resource |
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