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Burma image, WA0408. [A Ngorn girl with smoking pipe.] (Researcher's notes in brackets)
'The tobacco plant is universally grown in the hills, usually in the kitchen gardens in the villages and along the banks of the streams in the fields. The leaf is small and is cured by merely drying it in the sun or over the fireplace. When it is dry it is rolled into balls. Women throughout Chinland smoke unceasingly, not only for their own pleasure, but also to supply the men with nicotine water. The pipes of the women are 'hubble-bubbles' with a clay bowl, a bamboo or gourd water receptacle and metal stem. The smoke passes from the bowl into the gourd or bamboo receptacle and impregnates the water with nicotine. When this nicotine water is sufficiently flavoured it is poured into a gourd which the southern women carry in their baskets and which northern women carry round their necks, and from this the nicotine gourds of the men are filled. Every man sips this nicotine; he does not drink it, but merely keeps it in his mouth for a time and spits it out' ['The Chin Hills: Vol. I', B. S. Carey and H. N. Tuck, Rangoon, 1896, p.182-183]
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'The tobacco plant is universally grown in the hills, usually in the kitchen gardens in the villages and along the banks of the streams in the fields. The leaf is small and is cured by merely drying it in the sun or over the fireplace. When it is dry it is rolled into balls. Women throughout Chinland smoke unceasingly, not only for their own pleasure, but also to supply the men with nicotine water. The pipes of the women are 'hubble-bubbles' with a clay bowl, a bamboo or gourd water receptacle and metal stem. The smoke passes from the bowl into the gourd or bamboo receptacle and impregnates the water with nicotine. When this nicotine water is sufficiently flavoured it is poured into a gourd which the southern women carry in their baskets and which northern women carry round their necks, and from this the nicotine gourds of the men are filled. Every man sips this nicotine; he does not drink it, but merely keeps it in his mouth for a time and spits it out' ['The Chin Hills: Vol. I', B. S. Carey and H. N. Tuck, Rangoon, 1896, p.182-183]
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