Half-smoked cigarette consisting of one dried leaf of tobacco rolled in the inner bark of the tamu tree. [FB 07/08/2014]

Collection type: Object
Description: Half-smoked cigarette consisting of one dried leaf of tobacco rolled in the inner bark of the tamu tree. [FB 07/08/2014]
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 118 mm, Width: max 7 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1964.2.73.12
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

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