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Ainu. Tobacco Box with Cover, late 19th - early 20th century. Wood, 3 3/4 x 4 5/16 in. (9.5 x 10.9 cm). Gift of Herman Stutzer, 12.473a. Creative Commons-BY.
Until the early twentieth century Ainu men smoked tobacco from long-stemmed pipes that they carried daily, along with a long pipe holder that was tucked into one’s sash and a tobacco box that would hang by a chord from the pipe holder. The small bowl of the pipe fit into the hole at the end of the pipe holder. It is likely that the Ainu people developed a taste for tobacco through the influence of Chinese merchants, their primary trading partners for centuries.