Tobacco Container

ClassificationsTools and Equipment-smoking or snuffing equipment-containers

Culture Miao

Date20th Century

Made AtChina, Asia

MediumWood and leather

Dimensions3 3/4 × 4 × 1 7/16 in. (9.5 × 10.2 × 3.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anne and Long Shung Shih

Object number2020.14.7

DescriptionThis is a tobacco container from the Miao people of China. Tobacco was introduced to the Miao through trade shortly after its arrival in China in 1612. Mostly due to the environmental conditions of where the Miao live, tobacco is still traded for rather than grown by most Miao groups. Small containers such as this can be kept on one’s person using the fiber string which also serves as a mechanism for keeping the lid on the container when suspended.

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