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A man squatting outside a hut in Calcutta smokes a chillum held in his cupped hands. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799, lettered "A Chillum".
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- Original: "Man smoking chillum outside a hut, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799", Wellcome Collection 30574i, on the Wellcome Collection website, marked there with the Public Domain Mark.
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