1964.2.73.10

Collection type

Object

Description

Half-smoked cigarette. [MOBB [OPS move] 24/10/2016]

Long description

Half-smoked cigarette consisting of one dried leaf of tobacco rolled in the inner bark of the tamu tree. The cigarette has a small piece of leaf or bark? plant charm tied to it with plant fibre. [MOBB [OPS move] 24/10/2016]

Geographical reference

Suriname

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Suriname

Lawa River

Cultural groups

Wayana

Person

Field collector Audrey Butt Colson

PRM source Audrey Butt Colson

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1963

Date collected

April - October 1963

Acquisition information

Donated: 1964

Materials and processes

Material Tobacco Plant, Material Bark Fibre Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Rolled, Process Tied

Dimensions

Length: max 115 mm, Width: max 10 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1964.2.73.10

Associated publications

Illustrated (along with the other component parts of 1964.2.73) as Figure 7.2 on page 160 of 'Commercial Cigarettes and Tamï Ale among the Wayana in Northern Amazonia', by Renzo S. Duin, in The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America, edited by Andrew Russell and Elizabeth Rahman (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), pp. 155-66. Caption (same page): 'Figure 7.2 Samples of new and used Tamï Ale, the traditional long cigarettes with locally grow tobacco (tamï ale), along with okalat inner tree bark wrapper (Couratari guianensis), collected by Audrey Butt-Colson in 1963 in the Wayana villages of Kawemhakan, Suriname (new) and Twenke, French Guiana (used cigarettes), both located at the Lawa, upper Maroni River (Pitt Rivers Museum inv.nr. 1964:2:73). (Photography by Renzo Duin 2012.)' [JC 19 6 2015]

Search terms: Narcotic, Religion, Cigarette, Tobacco Narcotic