Waterpipe
date: label: Date made
content: 1900-1920
notes: label: Description
content: The waterpipe or arghili is a popular communal smoking device in Middle Eastern communities and among immigrant populations outside the Middle East. Hot tobacco smoke is cooled as it is drawn up from a bed of charcoal through a reservoir of water to the smoker with a removable pipe stem in his or her mouth. Waterpipes are popular in street cafes and other community gathering places, and in many homes.
label: Description
content: This Turkish waterpipe of the early 20th century has a milk-glass reservoir depicting Mehmet VI, the last Ottoman sultan. Mehmet fled Istanbul into exile in 1922, marking the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. A Turkish immigrant later carried this waterpipe with him to Indianapolis, Indiana as a relic of leisure hours spent in the homeland.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Turkey
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thomas Naff for the Faris and Yamna Naff Family Arab-American Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0218.58
label: accession number
content: 1984.0218
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0218.58
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0218.58
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Waterpipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: clay (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, "brass" (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 8 in; 58.42 cm x 20.32 cm