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  • A teacher sitting on the carpet with a hookah pipe and some books teaching three children. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A man smoking a hookah pipe and holding a branch with a red object hanging from it. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one holding a sword in a scabbard (left), the other smoking a hookah (right). Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Maharaja Deepseev (?) sitting and smoking a hookah pipe, as two female attendants fan him and a third looks on. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.
  • Constantinople: a boy presents a smoking hookah to Mr Sotiri, Albanian interpreter to the British consul in Bucharest. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • A Nawab (?) holding a hookah pipe, as a woman dances in front of him, watched by some musicians and a group of people. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Emperor Akbar (?) holding a hookah pipe, sitting with three women and playing a board game while a female attendant stands behind him with a fan. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two Hindu ascetics: left, a woman wearing saffron robes, brimless hat and slippers and smoking a hookah; right, a barefoot man wearing a saffron loincloth and a tigerskin, and carrying a spear and sword in a scabbard. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • A group of men wait by the rocks on a beach with a small boat nearby. Lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • An Indian seated outside his house smoking a hooka. Chromolithograph.
  • A Vaishnavite or bairagi ascetic. Gouache, 18--.
  • An Indian mendicant man and his wife, of the "Bynagy" caste. Gouache painting.
  • A well-dressed Hindu ascetic or holy man receiving gifts from a richly dressed woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.