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Knowledge Case Study: Smoking Map

Katherine Clough

Created on September 15, 2023

A critical look at how the footprint of colonialism is on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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One plant. Multiple stories.

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The history of opium as presented by the objects in Case 40A is much more varied than what the label suggests. In fact, the objects map the long and complex history of the opium trade between Britain, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and China. The case represents the events of the Opium Wars (1839-1860), through which Britain gained commercial and territorial privileges in China, including legally and freely selling addictive opium to the Chinese population. It also tells the story of the impoverishment of much of the Indian population through the forced submission of their land and labour for the cultivation of opium by colonial powers, and the ‘payment’ of Aboriginal Australian labourers with opium by European landowners.

Map showing the number of opium pipes in the museum against where they are recorded as collected from.

Colloquial names for the poppy plant: balewort, dream plant, sweet slumber, fairy’s charms, moonflower.

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