At its most basic, opium smoking could be accomplished with three key pieces of paraphernalia: the opium pipe, the opium lamp, and the opium needle. For smokers with no limits on time or money, there were myriad accoutrements crafted in materials both common and precious. The items displayed here are just a handful of hundreds of arcane tools that were once manufactured solely for the ingestion of opium, and whose functions have largely been forgotten.