Visiting Tobacco Item Number: 11.694.9025 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This is a small flower printed sack tied with the same fabric. Contents unverified as not opened. This was purchased at the same time as the visiting sticks (see 11.694.8994). According to information received at the time such sticks and tobacco were sometimes sent along by messenger when a traveler was within a day's journey of his destination. Although gifts acknowledged the tobacco was rarely smoked. This bag was given to Culin by Charlie Michel when Culin visited him at his home.
Credit Line
Gift of Charlie Michel
Item History
- Made between 1868 and 1933
What
- Name
- Visiting Tobacco
- Identification Number
- 11.694.9025
- Type of Item
- tobacco
- Material
- plant material and cotton fabric
- Measurements
- “sack: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)” ?
Who
- Culture
- Osage
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1868 and 1933
Other
- Classification
- Smoking/Drugs