Opium Pipe
date: label: date made
content: before 1886
notes: label: Description
content: Wood (bamboo) pipe stem with ivory endpiece and mouthpiece, metal saddle for bowl and carved node stem. Hexagonal brown ceramic bowl with metal collar on bottom and small pinhole on top; inscribed on bottom of bowl: "77141 / San Francisco / P. Crowley." A San Francisco ordinance dated 1875 banned smoking of opium in opium dens. The San Francisco Police Department confiscated this opium pipe, and gave it to the Smithsonian in 1886.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: San Francisco Police Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.077141
label: catalog number
content: 077141
label: accession number
content: 17215
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pipe, Opium
label: Object Name
content: pipe, opium
label: Object Name
content: pipe, opium
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, pipe: 1 7/8 in x 22 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 58.1025 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, bowl: 1 7/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 6.35 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (pipe): 57.8 cm x 3.3 cm; 22 3/4 in x 1 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: bowl: 4.3 cm x 5.4 cm x 6 cm; 1 11/16 in x 2 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in