Pipe

See also: Pipe (homonymy)

The pipe is a Objet being used for to smoke (Tabac, Opium…). It is in general made up of two parts: the Furnace (it contains the tobacco) and the pipe. The matters most often used for the pipe are:

  • the Heather (the plant Erica arborea); in this case, part of the plant is initially transformed into briar-block, then this briar-block is dug and worked out of furnace of pipe
  • the sea foam (Silicate of Magnésium also called steatite (SiO4) Mg2). The Cappadoce, in Turkey, is one of the areas which provides the primary product.
  • the Terra cotta (Clay)

Other matters can be more rarely used to manufacture the pipe: birch bark, water-bottle and even corn…

There exists a Museum of the Pipe with Saint-Claude, in the the Jura.

Special pipes

Peace pipe of the Indians of North America

In North America, the Amerindians use a pipe called Calumet; the fact of smoking a peace pipe has a very important religious significance for them. There are various significances of which the fact of joining together the furnace (principle female) and the pipe (male principle). The smoke of the crowned tobacco carrying the prayers towards a higher principle (for the Lakota, called " Sioux " by Europeans who used a algonquin term scorning to name them: Wakan Tanka, literally-Crowned Large). The peace pipe of peace is not only one reference of Western: historically, this concept exists.

Pipe with water

Kiseru

Kiseru is a traditional pipe Japan ease.

Prototypes of smoker of pipe

These prototypes all are exclusively of male sex. Nevertheless certain heroins of Cartoons, as in the series Li' L Abner of Al Cape, smoke the pipe.
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