Cigarettes

Cigarette Package

P943

From: Borneo | Brunei

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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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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