Cigar
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Date
1839
Identifier
VO 2759 VO 2760
Origin
North Luzon
Materials
Tobacco leaves
Provenance
From the collection of Carl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hügel. One of the earliest dated objects in the Philippine Collection in the Museum. "This dates from the period between the establishment of a separate "Ethnographic Cabinet" within the Imperial History Cabinet Collection in 1806 and the creation of an Anthropological-Ethnographic Department in the New Natural History Museum in 1876." The object is one of fourteen from the Philippines that was a part of the Asian Pacific Collection of Von Hügel, assembled between 1830-1836 and acquired by the Museum in 1839. (Feest: 2009:3)
Acquisition Date
1839
Short description
In a journey around the world, Hügel stayed in the Philippines for three weeks and visited a large cigar factory in Manila. From the director of the factory, he asked for a specimen of the giant cigars he had seen on the streets: " I saw several old women apparently keeping a short branch in their mouth; approaching them, saw that it was a huge cigar, which even if already lighted, was a foot long and an inch in diameter." ( In German: Ich sah einige alte Weiber, welche einenkurzen Ast im munde zu haben schienen; nahe gekommen, fand ich dab es eine Cigarre, obschon bereits angeraucht, noch uber einen fub lang und einen Zoll im Durchmesser war ( Hugel 2002: 1860:63)
Related Object
See tobacco pouches in the same collection
Display status
In storage
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Collection
Source
Translated from German by Google Translate Record accessed March 2021
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“Cigar,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed April 24, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/2141.
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