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Hookah | Smoking pipe
Category: Vastu
Location: Talheri Gujran, Ambala, Haryana
Cultural region: Nardak
Materials: Earth (Terracotta, Copper, Iron), Grass (Bamboo), Metal (Brass)
Earth craft technique: Firing
Metal craft technique: Casting, Fittings, Welding
Source: DICRC, India and SADACC, UK
A smoking pipe used to smoke tobacco is known as hookah. Smoking a hookah is not just a personal activity but the most important and common social activity that the people of Haryana engage in. Almost every family owns at least one hookah. This hookah, bought from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was used by the head of the family to smoke tobacco while seated on a manja (charpoy).