Cigarettes
Cigarette Package
P943
From: Borneo | Brunei
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | P943 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Kayan |
Provenience | Borneo | Brunei |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Tobacco | Paper |
Description | Cigarettes. Gulong. Long cigarettes consisting of tobacco wrapped in banana leaves. At Tama Bulan's house Furness and Hill watched women making cigarettes for the festivities attending the naming of Tama Bulan's son: "we contributed freely from our store of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes. . . . while some prepared the dried banana leaves, others rolled the cigarettes; some rolled them on their thighs, others on polished boards held in their laps." |
Length | 186 cm |
Width | 14 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898 |
Other Number | 24 - Other Number |
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