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-AMERICAN INDIANS ***
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-
- USE OF TOBACCO
- AMONG
- NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
-
- BY
- RALPH LINTON
- ~Assistant Curator of North American Ethnology~
-
- [Illustration]
-
- ~Anthropology~
- ~Leaflet 15~
-
- FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
- CHICAGO
- 1924
-
-[Illustration: PLATE I.
-
-PAWNEE PRIESTS MAKING A SMOKE OFFERING.]
-
-
-
-
- ~Field Museum of Natural History~
- DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
- ~Chicago, 1924~
-
-───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- ~Leaflet~ ~Number 15~
-───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- Use of Tobacco among North American Indians
-
-
-Tobacco has been one of the most important gifts from the New World
-to the Old. In spite of the attempts of various authors to prove its
-Old World origin there can be no doubt that it was introduced into
-both Europe and Africa from America. Most species of _Nicotiana_
-are native to the New World, and there are only a few species which
-are undoubtedly extra-American. The custom of smoking is also
-characteristic of America. It was thoroughly established throughout
-eastern North and South America at the time of the discovery; and
-the early explorers, from Columbus on, speak of it as a strange and
-novel practice which they often find it hard to describe. It played
-an important part in many religious ceremonies, and the beliefs and
-observances connected with it are in themselves proof of its antiquity.
-Hundreds of pipes have been found in the pre-Columbian mounds and
-village sites of the eastern United States and, although these remains
-cannot be dated, some of them must be of considerable age. In the
-southwestern United States the Basket Makers, an ancient people whose
-remains are found below those of the prehistoric Cliff Dwellers, were
-smoking pipes at a time which could not have been much later than the
-beginning of our era.
-
-At the time of the discovery of America, tobacco was in use over the
-greater part of the continent. It was not used in the sub-Arctic
-regions of North America or in the extreme southern part of Southern
-America. On the west coast of South America and in the Andean highlands
-it was replaced by another narcotic, coca (_Erythroxylum coca_), from
-which the modern drug cocaine is extracted. The coca leaves were dried
-and chewed with powdered lime. Tobacco was smoked throughout most of
-its range, but the tribes of the northwest coast of North America mixed
-it with shell lime and made it into small pellets which were allowed
-to dissolve in the mouth. The tribes of Washington, Oregon and a great
-part of California used it in the same way, but also smoked it. Along
-the eastern side of the Andean highlands in South America tobacco was
-both smoked and chewed. The chewing tobacco was prepared like the
-Andean coca, and the idea was probably borrowed from coca chewing.
-
-Although Europeans learned the custom of smoking from the Indians and
-even copied the Indian smoking appliances rather closely, the modern
-American custom of tobacco chewing may not be of Indian origin. None of
-the North American Indians east of the Rocky Mountains chewed tobacco,
-and the only point at which South American tobacco chewing reached the
-Atlantic Coast was a small region in northern Colombia. Modern chewing
-tobacco lacks the admixture of powdered lime, which was considered
-necessary by all Indian tobacco chewers and seems to have been an
-invention of the white frontiersmen. It is possible, however, that the
-idea of tobacco chewing was carried to the English colonies by the
-Spaniards, who may have learned it from the South American Indians.
-
-The North American Indians used at least nine species of _Nicotiana_,
-most of which were cultivated. _Nicotiana tabacum_, the species to
-which practically all the modern commercial tobaccos belong, was
-grown throughout Mexico, the West Indies, and in northern and
-eastern South America. It was unknown north of Mexico until its
-introduction into Virginia by the English colonists. _Nicotiana
-rustica_, a much hardier species with a yellow flower, was grown by
-the Indians of the eastern United States and Canada as far west as
-the great plains and as far north as agriculture was possible. It was
-the first tobacco grown in Virginia for the European trade, but was
-soon supplanted there by _N. tabacum_. Small patches of it are still
-cultivated by some of the Central Algonquian tribes who use it in their
-ceremonies. _N. attenuata_ was used over a larger area than any other
-species. It is found in its natural state in the southwestern United
-States and southern plains, and as a cultivated plant extends northward
-into western Canada and British Columbia. It was also cultivated on
-the lower Colorado, but the typical Pueblo tribes do not seem to have
-raised it. _N. multivalvis_ was grown in Washington and Oregon, as well
-as by the Crow, who lived on the western edge of the plains. A related
-species (_N. quadrivalvis_) was grown by the settled tribes along the
-Missouri river. Still another species (_N. biglovii_) was used by the
-California tribes, and is known to have been cultivated by the Hupa.
-The three last-named species are rather closely related; it seems
-probable that _N. multivalvis_ and _N. quadrivalvis_ were brought into
-the plains area from the west, displacing _N. attenuata_.
-
-[Illustration: PLATE II.
-
- AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.
-
- 1. BOWL OF BASKETMAKER PIPE. 2. BOWLS OF SOUTHWESTERN TUBULAR PIPES.
- 3. SOUTHWESTERN TUBULAR PIPE, SANDSTONE. 4. CALIFORNIA CLAY PIPE. 5.
- CALIFORNIA STEATITE PIPE. 6. PIPE WITH STEATITE BOWL AND WOODEN STEM,
- AND PIPE CASE, CALIFORNIA.]
-
-There is very little information available on the aboriginal methods of
-tobacco culture in the eastern United States. Early writers say that it
-was not grown with other crops, as it was believed to be injurious to
-them, and was usually cultivated by men. Mr. Milford Chandler informs
-me that the Cayuga, in New York State, had permanent tobacco beds in
-which the plant was grown year after year. These beds were lightly
-manured from time to time, but were not cultivated, and the plants
-were left to propagate themselves. The leaves were gathered, but the
-stems, with the seed pods, were left standing in the patch. The Seneca,
-another tribe of the Iroquois confederacy, simply scattered the seeds
-on the ground and had a religious prohibition against cultivating the
-plant. Mr. Alanson Skinner informs me that the Kickapoo and Potawatomi
-made large brush piles fifty or more feet long and ten or twelve feet
-wide which they fired about the middle of June. When the ashes were
-cold, the ground was hoed up, mixed with the ashes, and planted with
-tobacco and pumpkins. The tobacco gardens were made in the woods,
-remote from the villages, and were surrounded by brush fences. The
-Sauk also planted their tobacco in the ashes of brush-fires, but
-did not break the ground or cultivate the crop. In some cases they
-simply threw a handful of seeds on the ground near the lodge. The
-Kickapoo, Potawatomi and Sauk all gathered the leaves of the plant in
-late August. They spread them on hides or blankets, and when they had
-wilted, rolled them like tea-leaves. When dry, the leaves were crushed.
-The reason assigned for the rolling was that leaves treated in this way
-did not crush to fine powder like those that had been dried flat. Most
-of the eastern tribes grew only enough tobacco for their own needs,
-but one, the Tionontati, raised large quantities of it for export and,
-on this account, were called Tobacco People (Nation de Petun) by the
-French.
-
-The best published account of aboriginal tobacco-culture is that given
-to G. L. Wilson by Buffalobird-woman, an old member of the Hidatsa
-tribe. The Hidatsa raised a different species of tobacco from the
-eastern Indians (_N. quadrivalvis_), and their methods were somewhat
-different. She says, “The old men of the tribe who smoked each had a
-tobacco garden planted not very far away from our corn-fields, but
-never in the same plot with one. Tobacco gardens were planted apart,
-because the tobacco plants have a strong smell which affects the corn;
-if tobacco is planted near the corn, the growing corn-stalks turn
-yellow, and the corn is not so good. Tobacco seed was planted at the
-same time sunflower seed was planted (as early in April as the soil
-could be worked). The owner took a hoe and made soft every foot of the
-tobacco garden; and with a rake he made the loosened soil level and
-smooth. He marked the ground with a stick into rows about eighteen
-inches apart, and sowed the seed very thickly in the row. He covered
-the newly sowed soil very lightly with earth which he raked with his
-hand. When rain came and warmth, the seed sprouted. The plants came up
-thickly so that they had to be thinned out. The owner of the garden
-would weed out the weak plants, leaving only the stronger standing. The
-earth about each plant was hilled up with a buffalo rib into a little
-hill like a corn hill. A very old man, I remember, used a big buffalo
-rib, sharpened on the edge, to work the soil and cultivate his tobacco.
-He caught the rib by both ends with the edge downward; and stooping
-over, he scraped the soil toward him, now and then raising the rib
-up and loosening the earth with the point at one end. He knelt as he
-worked.
-
-“Tobacco plants began to blossom about the middle of June; and picking
-then began. Tobacco was gathered in two harvests. The first harvest
-was these blossoms, which we reckoned the best part of the plant
-for smoking. Blossoms were picked regularly every fourth day. If we
-neglected to pick them until the fifth day, the blossoms would begin
-to seed. Only the green part of the blossom was kept. When we fetched
-the blossoms home to the lodge, my father would spread a dry hide on
-the floor in front of his sacred objects and spread the blossoms on the
-hide to dry. The smoke hole of the lodge, being rather large, would
-let through quite a strong sunbeam, and the drying blossoms were kept
-directly in the beam.
-
-“When the blossoms had quite dried, my father fetched them over near
-the fireplace and took a piece of buffalo fat, thrust it on the end of
-a stick and roasted it slowly over the coals. He touched it lightly
-here and there to the piled up blossoms, so as to oil them slightly,
-but not too much. Now and then he would gently stir the pile of
-blossoms with a little stick, so that the whole mass might be oiled
-equally. When my father wanted to smoke these dried blossoms, he
-chopped them fine with a knife, a pipeful at a time. The blossoms were
-always dried in the lodge: If dried without, the sun and air took away
-their strength.
-
-“About harvest time, just before frost came, the rest of the plants
-were gathered. He dried the plants in the lodge. For this he took
-sticks, about fifteen inches long, and thrust them over the beam
-between two of the exterior supporting posts, so that the sticks
-pointed a little upwards. On each of these sticks he hung two or three
-tobacco plants by thrusting the plants, root up, upon the stick, but
-without tying them. When the tobacco plants were quite dry, the leaves
-readily fell off. It was the stems that furnished most of the smoking.
-They were treated like the blossoms, with buffalo fat. We did not treat
-tobacco with buffalo fat except as needed for use, and to be put into
-the tobacco pouch ready for smoking.
-
-“Before putting the tobacco away in the cache pit, my father was
-careful to put aside seed for the next year’s planting. He gathered the
-black seeds into a small bundle about as big as a baby’s fist, wrapping
-them in a piece of soft skin which he tied with a string. He made two
-or three of these bundles and tied them to the top of his bed, or to a
-post nearby, where there was no danger of their being disturbed.”
-
-[Illustration: PLATE III.
-
- AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.
-
- 1. PIPE OF ANTELOPE BONE, CHEYENNE. 2–3. STEATITE PIPES, JOHNSON
- COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 4–5. LARGE STEATITE PIPES, SOUTHEASTERN UNITED
- STATES.]
-
-The Blackfoot and Crow, nomadic tribes of the western Plains who raised
-no food crops, cultivated small patches of tobacco for ceremonial use.
-The ground was cleared of weeds and grass, and the seed planted in
-holes about two inches deep, made with a pointed stick. The gardens
-were weeded from time to time, but do not seem to have been regularly
-cultivated. In both tribes tobacco culture was attended by elaborate
-ceremonies. Among the Crow it was in the hands of a society which
-also played an important part in the social life of the tribe. The
-right to plant tobacco was considered a special privilege which could
-be obtained only through a revelation from some supernatural being
-or through adoption by a person who had received such a revelation.
-The adopted person could, in turn, adopt others. Any person might
-receive such a revelation, and the society was composed of a number
-of divisions or chapters which derived their right to plant from
-different revelations and differed in their songs and in details of
-their ceremonies. Within the chapter there were certain rights, such
-as that of mixing seed before planting, which could only be acquired
-by purchase. Both men and women were eligible to membership, and the
-society held assemblages for dancing throughout the year.
-
-Some of the tribes west of the Rocky Mountains also cultivated tobacco,
-although there is little information on their methods. On the Columbia
-River and in northern California a stump or fallen log was burned, and
-the tobacco seed scattered in the ashes.
-
-Most of the North American Indians mixed their tobacco with other herbs
-before smoking it. Among the more northern tribes, especially those who
-did not raise tobacco themselves, this was done partly through motives
-of economy, but the mixture was also designed to improve the flavor,
-as in our own commercial blends. The favorite smoke of the tribes of
-the eastern United States and Canada was called kinnikinnick, from an
-Algonquian word meaning “that which is mixed.” Each tribe had its own
-formula for this mixture, but it usually consisted of tobacco, sumac
-leaves, and the inner bark of a species of dogwood. The bark and leaves
-of a number of other plants were sometimes added or substituted. A
-little oil was usually added to the mixture to bind the dust, which
-would otherwise irritate the smoker’s throat and clog the pipe.
-Kinnikinnick was milder than pure tobacco, and was preferred by most
-Indians and by many white hunters and settlers. The Pueblo Indians of
-the Southwest smoked various mixtures of tobacco and herbs in their
-religious ceremonies. The greatest care was used in compounding these
-ceremonial mixtures, and the plants were valued largely according to
-the distance from which they came. The California Indians diluted their
-tobacco with manzanita leaves or mixed it with Jamestown weed, itself a
-powerful narcotic. The choicest smoking mixture of the ancient Mexicans
-was made from tobacco and the gum of the liquidambar tree.
-
-Three main methods of smoking were used by the American aborigines.
-The natives of northern and central South America and the West
-Indies were cigar smokers. The Central Americans and Mexicans were
-predominantly cigarette smokers, although some of the ancient Mexicans
-also used pipes. The North American Indians, with the exception of the
-Pueblo tribes of the Southwest, were exclusively pipe-smokers. The
-distribution of these three methods in America has strongly influenced
-European smoking customs. The Mediterranean nations, who learned the
-use of tobacco from cigar and cigarette using Indians, still prefer
-to smoke it in these forms. The English, who came in contact with
-the pipe-smoking Indians of the eastern United States are still
-predominantly pipe-smokers. The custom of cigarette-smoking did not
-become general in northern Europe and the United States until quite
-recent times, and the vigorous opposition which it has met here seems
-to be due quite as much to its novelty as to any proved injurious
-effects.
-
-Aboriginal cigars were practically identical with those now in use and
-were smoked in the same way.
-
-The aboriginal cigarette was made with a corn-husk wrapper and
-contained much less tobacco than the modern commercial variety.
-It is still in use throughout most of Mexico and Central America
-and among the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States.
-Archæological finds prove that the southwestern tribes smoked pipes
-or reed cigarettes in ancient times, and the corn-husk cigarette may
-have been introduced from Mexico during the early historic period.
-In recent times the spread of the Peyote cult, which originated in
-the southwestern Plains, has carried the corn-husk cigarette to many
-northern tribes who were unfamiliar with it even a generation ago. The
-Mexicans and Pueblo Indians also smoked reed cigarettes in ancient
-times, and the Hopi form may be taken as typical. It consisted of a
-small reed, not over two and a half inches long, packed with powdered
-tobacco. A band of some fabric was usually bound around the reed,
-leaving a flap hanging down by which it was held. Hundreds of the
-charred butts of such cigarettes have been found in the prehistoric
-ruins of the Southwest, but they are lacking in the lower archæological
-levels, and the earliest inhabitants of the region were probably pipe
-and not cigarette smokers.
-
-The Dakota say that they did not use pipes in ancient times, but smoked
-their tobacco in a hole in the ground. A similar method was used by
-the Cree as a makeshift. Hind says, “I asked the Indian what he
-would do for a smoke until he had finished the new pipe. He arose and
-walking to the edge of the swamp cut four reeds, and joined some pieces
-together. After he had made a hole through the joints, he gently pushed
-one extremity in a slanting direction into the earth, which he had
-previously made firm by pressure with his foot. He then cut out a small
-hole in the clay, above the extremity of the reed, and molding it with
-his fingers, laughingly said: ‘Now give me tobacco, and I will show you
-how to smoke it.’ He then filled the hole with a mixture of tobacco and
-bearberry, placed a live coal on the top, and stretching himself at
-full length on the ground, with his chin supported by both hands, he
-took the reed between his lips and enjoyed a long smoke.”
-
-Indian pipes were of two main types,—straight pipes, in which the
-tobacco cavity and stem were in the same plane, as in a modern cigar
-holder, and elbow pipes, in which the bowl was inclined upward. The
-straight pipe was known throughout practically the whole of America
-north of Mexico, but was rare in the eastern United States. It was
-used to the practical exclusion of all other forms in the southwestern
-United States and on the Pacific coast. The elaborately decorated
-smoking tubes of the Mexicans, mentioned by early Spanish writers,
-may have been straight pipes, but many of them were probably cane
-cigarettes. The elbow pipe was the dominant form in the eastern United
-States and Great Plains, and also in eastern and southern South
-America. It was used to a limited extent by the prehistoric Mexicans
-and in southern California, and was not unknown in the Southwest. In
-historic times it has come into use in British Columbia and Alaska,
-regions in which tobacco was not originally smoked.
-
-The earliest pipes which can be even approximately dated are those of
-the Basket Makers, a people who lived in the southwestern United States
-in ancient times. Their remains are found below those of the Cliff
-Dwellers, and evidence along several lines indicates that they were
-living in the region by the beginning of the Christian era and had been
-absorbed or driven out by ~A.D.~ 1000. A number of their pipes have
-been found. They are of the straight type and are usually quite small,
-short, and heavy, with separate stems about two inches long (Pl. II,
-No. 1). The bowls are made of stone, unbaked clay, or, rarely, wood;
-and the stems of wood or bird-bone. The stems are attached with pitch.
-Many of these pipes are heavily caked, and they were probably used
-for personal as well as ceremonial smoking. It is impossible to tell
-whether the Basket Makers used tobacco in these pipes and analyses of
-the cake have yielded only negative results. If they did use tobacco,
-it was probably the wild native species (_Nicotiana attenuata_).
-
-The Cliff Dwellers and ancient Pueblo tribes who succeeded the Basket
-Makers used straight pipes of a somewhat different type. They were
-usually longer and more slender than the Basket Maker pipes with
-somewhat thinner walls. The smaller examples, which were probably
-intended for personal use, seem to have had separate stems (Plate II,
-No. 2). Large tubular pipes, shaped like half a cigar, are also found,
-but were probably used only in ceremonial smoking. They are made of
-clay or soft stone and often show beautiful workmanship (Pl. II, No.
-3). Roughly made clay pipes of this sort, popularly known as “cloud
-blowers,” are still used by the Hopi in their ceremonies.
-
-The California Indians, with the exception of the Diegueño, also used
-the straight pipe, and the form is probably as ancient there as in
-the Southwest. There were various tribal and regional differences in
-the shape and material. Wooden pipes without separate stems were of
-nearly universal occurrence, and were probably the earliest form. In
-some regions they were carved and inlaid with abalone shell. Pipes
-of unbaked clay with wooden stems were used in a few localities (Pl.
-II, No. 4), but the finest California pipes were made of steatite
-or soapstone (Pl. II, No. 5). They were usually provided with short
-mouthpieces of wood or bone. The Hupa of northern California used a
-pipe with a small steatite bowl accurately fitted into a cavity in the
-end of a long tapering wooden stem (Pl. II, No. 6).
-
-Several of the tribes of the Great Plains used straight pipes in
-ancient times. These pipes were made from the leg bone of an antelope
-wrapped with sinew at the bowl end (Pl. III, No. 1). In some cases the
-whole pipe was covered with rawhide or membrane. The Arapaho say that
-they used this form exclusively in early times, and the sacred pipe of
-the tribe is straight with a black stone bowl and a long tubular wooden
-stem. A pipe of the same form, but with a red stone bowl, was used by
-the Cheyenne in their Sun Dance, and the Crow have made straight stone
-pipe bowls until quite recent times (Pl. V, No. 3).
-
-A number of straight pipes of stone and clay have been found in the
-eastern United States, but there seems to be no record of their use
-by the historic tribes. The examples shown (Pl. III, Nos. 2–3) are
-from Johnson County, Illinois. They are made from close-grained
-greenish brown steatite, a material soft enough to be easily worked
-with flint tools, but capable of taking a fine polish. The large size
-and excellent finish of these pipes indicates that they were intended
-for ceremonial rather than personal use. The bird pipe is eight and
-a quarter inches long, with an internal bowl diameter of one and
-a quarter inches, and is an unusually good example of aboriginal
-sculpture. The eye sockets are roughly finished, and were probably
-inlaid with some other material.
-
-Straight pipes are easier to make than elbow pipes, but have certain
-disadvantages. They have to be directed upward in smoking to keep the
-tobacco from falling out of the bowl, and the tobacco dust and juices
-are drawn down into the stem with results familiar to all smokers. To
-prevent this, many tribes are said to have put a pebble or pellet of
-clay in the bottom of the bowl before filling it. Even a slight angle
-between the bowl and stem is a great convenience to the smoker, and
-this improvement once hit upon, perhaps through faulty workmanship, the
-development of the elbow pipe was easy. Pipes from different parts of
-North America show all degrees of bowl inclination from the straight
-tube to a right angle, and there can be little doubt that the main
-evolution of the elbow pipe was along this line. In the Mississippi
-Valley and Great Plains there are, however, certain types of elbow pipe
-which could hardly have been developed in this way. In these the bowl
-rests upon a base which extends out for some distance in front of it.
-From various archæological finds it seems probable that these types
-were developed from pipes which had a corn-cob bowl pierced through the
-base with a reed stem.
-
-North American elbow pipes have never been satisfactorily classified,
-but about twenty types are distinguishable. Only the more important
-of these can be mentioned here. Most of the types show a more or
-less continuous geographical distribution, but there was no tribe or
-region in which all the pipes were of the same type. The Chippewa
-distinguished four types of pipe which were in simultaneous use among
-them. These were—(1) Women’s pipes, which were small, with short
-stems and little decoration. (2) Men’s pipes for ordinary smoking,
-which were somewhat larger and better made than the women’s pipes, but
-were also small. (3) Personal pipes of famous warriors, which were
-larger than the ordinary pipes, with heavy decorated stems sometimes
-as much as five feet long. (4) Chief’s pipes and ceremonial pipes,
-which were large, with long stems like the warrior’s pipes, and were
-elaborately decorated. Even the pipes for ordinary smoking were highly
-valued and would often be carved and decorated in the owner’s spare
-time. Stone for pipe-making, and even finished pipes, seem to have been
-bartered from tribe to tribe in ancient times.
-
-The Indians made their pipes from many materials. Most of the
-prehistoric pipes are of stone or clay, but early records prove that
-wood, horn, and bone were also used by the tribes of the Atlantic Coast
-at the time of their first contact with Europeans. Almost all the
-pipes made of these perishable materials have been destroyed, but they
-were probably of the same types as the stone and clay pipes from this
-region. Clay pipes were in at least occasional use throughout the whole
-of North America east of the Great Plains, but the finest examples
-are found in the old Iroquois territory in New York State and Canada,
-and in the southeastern United States. Stone pipes are found from the
-Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains and seem to have been preferred
-by all those tribes among whom pottery making was poorly developed.
-
-Large numbers of Iroquoian clay pipes have been found in old cemeteries
-and village sites, and their form makes them easily distinguishable in
-collections. They are made of fine hard-burned clay and have a graceful
-trumpet shape, with rather long slender bowls and short stems (Pl. IV,
-No. 3). The upper part of the bowl is often encircled by a band of
-incised designs or modeled into a human face or bird’s head. They
-were not provided with separate stems.
-
-[Illustration: PLATE IV.
-
- AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.
-
- 1. MONITOR PIPE, HOPEWELL MOUNDS, OHIO. 2. BIRD AND FISH PIPE,
- HOPEWELL MOUNDS, OHIO. 3. IROQUOIS CLAY PIPE. 4. CATAWBA CLAY PIPES
- (MODERN). 5. MEXICAN CLAY PIPES (TOLTEC?).]
-
-Archæological finds on the Atlantic coast prove that the Indians of
-that region also used small clay pipes, although the early visitors
-only mention large pipes with excessively long stems. It seems probable
-that the larger forms were semi-ceremonial, like the warrior’s and
-chief’s pipes of the Chippewa, while the small pipes were used for
-individual smoking. Many of these small pipes resemble rather closely
-the early European trade pipes, and modern clay pipes and straight
-briers, but the type is unquestionably pre-European. It was probably
-the prototype from which modern European pipes were developed. Some of
-the ancient pipes were made in one piece, while others were evidently
-provided with separate stems, probably reeds. Identical forms were made
-in stone in this region.
-
-In the southeastern United States short clay pipes with reed or
-wooden stems seem to have been in common use. They were often rather
-elaborately decorated, with modeled figures of birds, clay pellets, or
-incised designs. This form of pipe is still in use among the Catawba,
-although many of their pipes show the influence of European models (Pl.
-IV, No. 4).
-
-Pottery pipes with flaring bowls and slender stems, sometimes as much
-as eighteen inches long, are found in prehistoric Caddoan sites in
-Arkansas. The stems are excessively fragile, and as these pipes are
-usually found in the corners of graves, it seems probable that they
-were made for mortuary use rather than actual smoking. They are clearly
-imitations of a type which had a corn-cob bowl impaled on a reed stem.
-
-Stone pipes occur over a wider territory than pottery pipes and show
-a greater diversity of form. There are some regions in which the same
-shapes occur in both stone and pottery, but there are several types of
-pipe which appear never to have been made of clay. Most of the stones
-used in pipe-making were quite soft, but a few pipes of quartzite and
-other hard rocks have been found. The material was carefully selected,
-and was usually obtained from regular quarries. In the eastern United
-States steatite, serpentine and slate were the stones most used. In the
-upper Mississippi valley and Great Plains the favorite material was
-catlinite, a fine-grained claystone soft enough to be easily worked
-with stone tools, but firm enough to take a high polish. Deposits of
-this material have been found in several states, and a local variety
-was used by the Ohio Mound Builders. The most famous catlinite quarries
-are in southeastern Minnesota and yield the highly prized red stone
-from which so many Plains Indian pipes are made. Here the catlinite
-occurs as a narrow layer, nowhere more than twenty inches thick,
-between strata of compact quartzite five to eight feet thick. To reach
-the catlinite it was necessary to break away the quartzite with stone
-mauls or shatter it by building large fires upon it and then dashing
-water on the heated stone. The old Indian workings extend for more than
-a mile along the face of the deposit, and the quarry must have been in
-use for several centuries. According to Indian traditions, the place
-was visited by many different tribes, who considered it common property
-and abstained from hostilities there. In historic times the Dakota
-considered it exclusively their property, and part of it was set aside
-for their use when they ceded their other lands in the vicinity. They
-still visit it occasionally to obtain stone for their pipes. White men
-have also worked the quarry, and in 1865 and 1866 over two thousand
-pipes of this material were made by the Northwestern Fur Company for
-their trade with the Indians.
-
-The finest aboriginal pipes are unquestionably the so-called monitor
-pipes found in the Ohio mounds. Many of these show such excellence
-of design and execution that early investigators doubted whether
-they could be the work of American Indians. They are made of soft
-stone or of fire clay, which was carved like stone, but never of
-pottery. The type is characterized by a long, broad, and very thin
-base from the center of which the bowl rises vertically. The base may
-be either flat or convex. The bowl is often made in the form of an
-animal or bird, and some of these effigies show artistic ability of
-a high order. Even when the style is impressionistic, the species is
-usually unmistakable. The significance of these carvings can only be
-conjectured, but so many species are shown that it seems probable that
-they represent the personal guardians of the pipes’ owners. None of the
-historic tribes used pipes of this type, and the finest examples are
-unquestionably pre-Columbian. One of the pipes illustrated (Pl. IV, No.
-1) is of typical monitor form, but has the bowl incised with designs
-representing bird’s heads. In the other (Pl. IV, No. 2) the shape has
-been modified to suit the subject, a roseate spoonbill resting on
-the back of some large water animal, probably a mud puppy (_Necturus
-maculosus_).
-
-A number of large stone pipes have been found in the southeastern
-United States (Pl. III, Nos. 4–5). Some of these pipes weigh several
-pounds and, as they are everywhere associated with smaller forms of
-stone or clay, they were probably made for ceremonial use. They seem
-to have been provided with long, thick wooden stems. These heavy pipes
-are of several types, and are usually well made, but are inferior to
-the monitor pipes in design and execution. In Georgia, Alabama, and
-the lower Mississippi valley there is a very massive short type in
-which the bowl and stem holes are conical and of nearly equal size
-and depth. These biconical pipes are often made in the form of human
-effigies or of highly conventionalized animals or birds.
-
-Early visitors to the north Atlantic Coast say that the Indians of
-that region used heavy carved pipes with stems three to six feet long.
-Large stone pipes are hardly ever found in this region, and even small
-carved pipes are extremely rare. It seems probable that these early
-forms either had quite small, plain bowls with heavy carved stems, or
-were made of wood or other perishable material. Holm says that the
-Pennsylvania Indians made their pipe bowls of horn, and several of the
-Algonquian tribes have made a considerable use of carved wooden pipes
-in historic times. Among many tribes the stems of ceremonial pipes were
-elaborately decorated, and were considered more important than the
-bowls.
-
-Plains Indian pipes are commoner in collections than those from any
-other region. The Blackfoot preferred pipes of black stone, with
-acorn-shaped bowls reminiscent of those in use among the Micmac and
-other northeastern Algonquian tribes (Pl. V, No. 4), but throughout
-most of the Plains the favorite pipe was made of Minnesota catlinite,
-and was of Sioux type (Pl. V, Nos. 6–8). This type is common in museums
-and private collections. It has a tubular bowl set vertically on a long
-base which projects beyond the bowl as a pointed spur. This projecting
-base is also found in the monitor pipes, and the two types may be
-remotely related. Pipes of the Sioux type have been made in great
-numbers by both whites and Indians, and many of those in collections
-were probably manufactured by whites. Either early white traders, or
-the tribes on the eastern edge of the Plains originated the practice of
-inlaying the bowls and bases with lead. The pipe was cut to nearly its
-final form, and a clay mold made. Deep grooves were then cut in the
-stone to receive the lead, and the pipe was returned to the mold, and
-the metal poured. The metal and stone were then rubbed down to a smooth
-surface. Valuable pipes which had been broken were sometimes repaired
-in this way.
-
-[Illustration: PLATE V.
-
- AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.
-
- 1–2. PAWNEE SACRED PIPES. 3. CHEYENNE SUN-DANCE PIPE. 4. BLACKFOOT
- PIPE. 5–7. CHEYENNE PIPES. 6–8. SIOUX PIPES. 9. PIPE TAMPER, SIOUX.
- 10. PIPE BAG, SIOUX.]
-
-All Plains Indian pipes, with the exception of the straight bone pipes
-previously noted, were provided with long, heavy, wooden stems. Some
-tribes preferred tubular, others flat stems. In ancient times most of
-the long pipe stems were probably split lengthwise, the smoke passage
-excavated, and the two halves glued together. Some of the northern
-and western tribes used a solid tubular stem which they pierced by an
-ingenious method. They selected a young ash shoot which had a small
-pith cavity in the center and caught a wood-boring grub. They made a
-hole in one end of the shoot and inserted the grub, closing the opening
-behind it. The shoot was then hung over a fire, and the grub, following
-the pith as the line of least resistance, drilled a hole through the
-shaft from end to end. When it emerged, it was captured and returned
-to the place where it had been found with appropriate thanks. Split
-tubular stems are rather unsatisfactory, as the halves are liable to
-warp and separate. The broad, flat pipe-stem was probably invented to
-give a wider surface for the glue and hence a firmer joint. It reached
-its highest development among the Dakota, and they seem to have been
-the inventors of the “puzzle stem,” a broad, flat stem pierced with
-designs so that the smoke passage had to make several turns between
-the pipe-bowl and mouth-piece. Pipe stems were often decorated with
-elaborate wrappings which helped to hold the halves together.
-
-A peculiar form of pipe, which may be a variant of the Sioux type, is
-found in a limited area in the upper Mississippi valley. These pipes
-usually have bases with long projecting spurs, but the bowl is smaller
-than the stem hole and very low. It is surrounded by a broad, thin disk
-sometimes as much as three and a half inches across. Some of these
-“disk pipes” suggest the shallow-bowled pipes of the Asiatics, but the
-form is certainly prehistoric. Pipes of this type are rare, and were
-probably made for ceremonial use. One of the sacred pipes of the Omaha
-is of this sort.
-
-Although all the Mexican Indians were predominantly cigarette-smokers,
-ancient clay pipes of elbow type have been found in the valley of
-Mexico (Pl. IV, No. 5). They are not mentioned by any of the early
-Spanish writers, but the specimens found are unquestionably of native
-workmanship, and are probably prehistoric. The commonest form has a
-bulb-shaped bowl and a rather thick stem flattened on the bottom, so
-that the pipe will stand upright. The occurrence of elbow pipes in a
-limited area, far from any other in which they were known, is difficult
-to account for. Some of these pipes resemble forms in use in the
-southeastern United States and lower Mississippi valley.
-
-Elbow pipes were also used on the Northwest Coast and in Alaska, but
-they were introduced into these regions after the discovery of America.
-The Alaskan Eskimo apparently learned the practice of smoking from the
-natives of Siberia, and their pipes are of Asiatic type, with very
-small bowls (Pl. VI, No. 1). Their best pipes are made from walrus
-tusks, and are often elaborately etched. The tusk is usually split
-lengthwise and the halves joined in such a way that they can be taken
-apart to obtain the juice distilled in smoking. The juice was mixed
-with fungus ashes for chewing or with the smoking tobacco. Poorly made
-pipes of Eskimo form were used by the Athapascan tribes of interior
-Alaska, who were taught to smoke by the Eskimo.
-
-The Indians of the Northwest Coast chewed tobacco in ancient times, but
-did not smoke it. The more northern tribes may have adopted smoking
-from Asia by way of the Eskimo, but their pipes show little resemblance
-to the Asiatic forms, and they probably learned the practice from white
-visitors. The natives of this region are expert carvers, and nearly all
-their pipes are decorated with figures of men or totemic animals. Wood
-is the favorite material (Pl. VI, No. 2), but bone and antler are also
-used and some of the tribes make very elaborate pipes of black slate
-(Pl. VI, No. 3). The slate pipes are much sought after by collectors,
-and many of them seem to have been made for sale rather than use.
-
-Pipes are mentioned among the goods given to the Indians in some of
-the earliest English land-purchases, and they were regularly carried
-by the white traders with the Indians. An English pipe-maker, Robert
-Cotton, came to Virginia in 1608. The earliest trade pipes were made
-of clay and seem to have been patterned after the small pipes used
-for personal smoking by the coast tribes. Those made in the various
-European countries showed minor differences, but were all of nearly the
-same form. The later trade pipes show an increasing diversity in shape
-and decoration, but the whites apparently did not attempt to make the
-larger ceremonial forms. The most important contribution on the part
-of the whites to the Indian tobacco complex was the tomahawk pipe.
-This implement had a pipe-bowl above and a blade below, and could be
-used either as a pipe or as a weapon. We do not know when or where it
-originated, but it apparently did not come into general use in the
-English Colonies before 1750. All the European nations equipped their
-Indian allies with tomahawk pipes, and a number of types are recognized
-by collectors. The pipe-bowl was nearly always of acorn shape, like
-the pipe used by the northeastern Algonquians, but the blade varied
-considerably. In general, the English and early American tomahawks had
-straight-edged hatchet-blades, and the French ones had diamond-shaped
-blades, like spear-heads. Spanish tomahawks had flaring blades with
-curved edges, like mediæval battle-axes. There were a number of white
-tomahawk-makers whose work differed in minor details; and fine inlaid,
-chased, or inscribed tomahawks were sometimes made for presentation to
-important chiefs.
-
-An Indian warrior was rarely without his pipe and tobacco, and special
-tobacco-bags were used by all the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains.
-In early times, these bags were usually made from the skins of small
-animals taken off whole. The Eastern Woodland tribes used a rather
-small bag which was tied to the belt. The Plains tribes used a larger
-bag, often made from a fawn skin, in which they carried both the pipe
-and tobacco. In historic times the northern Plains Indians have used
-long, flat rectangular bags decorated with beads or porcupine quills,
-but this type apparently is not an ancient one (Pl. V, No. 10). Several
-of the Plains tribes also had special boards on which the tobacco was
-cut up and elaborate pipe tampers (Pl. V, No. 9). These accessories
-were used mainly in ceremonial smoking. In Pawnee ceremonies the
-pipe was always tamped with an arrow captured from the enemy. It was
-forbidden to pack it with the fingers, as the gods might think that the
-man who did so offered himself with the tobacco and take his life. The
-tribes of the Northwest Coast crushed their tobacco in mortars. These
-were usually made from whale vertebrae, and were often elaborately
-carved.
-
-Even if documentary evidence of the New World origin of tobacco were
-lacking, its importance in the religious and ceremonial life of the
-Indians would leave little doubt of the antiquity of its use among
-them. Among all the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains tobacco was the
-favorite offering to the supernatural powers, and among the Central
-Algonquians no ceremony could take place without it. As a sacrifice
-it might be burned as incense, cast into the air or on the ground, or
-buried. There were sacred places at which every visitor left a tobacco
-offering, and during storms it was thrown into lakes and rivers to
-appease the under-water powers. Smoking was indulged in on all solemn
-occasions, such as councils, and was a necessary part of most religious
-ceremonies. In such ceremonial smoking the methods of picking up,
-filling, and lighting the pipe were usually rigidly prescribed, and
-the first smoke was offered to the spirits. The methods of passing and
-holding the pipe were also prescribed and differed with the ceremony
-and even with the personal taboos of the smokers. In the religious
-ceremonies of the Hopi, the head chief was attended by an assistant
-of nearly equal rank, who ceremonially lighted the pipe, and with
-certain formalities and set words handed it to the chief, who blew the
-smoke to the world quarters and over the altar as a preliminary to his
-invocation.
-
-The so-called medicine-bundles, collections of sacred objects around
-which the religious life of many of the Central Algonquians and
-Plains Tribes centered, often contained pipes which were smoked in
-the ceremonies attending the opening of the bundle (Pl. V, Nos. 1–2).
-In some cases the pipe itself seems to have been the most important
-object, and the palladium of the Arapaho tribe is a straight pipe of
-black stone. Among some of the eastern Siouan tribes each clan had its
-sacred pipe which was used at namings and other clan ceremonies. The
-stems of these pipes were covered with elaborate wrappings and other
-ornaments which symbolized the various supernatural powers invoked in
-the ceremonies, and the sanctity of the pipe lay in its stem rather
-than its bowl.
-
-The calumet, so often mentioned in early American records, was not a
-pipe, but an elaborately decorated shaft, pierced like a pipe stem,
-to which a pipe bowl was not necessarily attached. The name itself
-is not of Indian origin, but is a Norman-French word meaning a reed
-or tube. J. N. B. Hewitt says, “From the meager descriptions of the
-calumet and its uses it would seem that it has a ceremonially symbolic
-history independent of that of the pipe; and that when the pipe became
-an altar, by its employment for burning sacrificial tobacco to the
-gods, convenience and convention united the already highly symbolic
-calumet shafts and the sacrificial tobacco altar, the pipe bowl;
-hence it became one of the most profoundly sacred objects known to
-the Indians of northern America. As the colors and other adornments
-of the shaft represent symbolically various dominant gods of the
-Indian pantheon, it follows that the symbolism of the calumet and
-pipe represented a veritable executive council of the gods. Moreover,
-in some of the elaborate ceremonies in which it was necessary to
-portray this symbolism the employment of two shafts became necessary,
-because the one with its colors and accessory adornments represented
-the procreative male power and his aid, and was denominated the male,
-the fatherhood of nature; and the other with its colors and necessary
-adornments represented the reproductive female power and her aid, and
-was denominated the female, the motherhood of nature.
-
-“The calumet was employed by ambassadors and travelers as a passport;
-it was used in ceremonies designed to conciliate foreign and hostile
-nations and to conclude lasting peace; to ratify the alliance of
-friendly tribes; to secure favorable weather for journeys; to bring
-needed rain; and to attest contracts and treaties which could not
-be violated without incurring the wrath of the gods. The use of the
-calumet was inculcated by religious precept and example. A chant and a
-dance have become known as the chant and dance of the calumet; together
-they were employed as an invocation to one or more of the gods. By
-naming in the chant the souls of those against whom war must be waged,
-such persons were doomed to die at the hands of the person so naming
-them. The dance and chant were rather in honor of the calumet than with
-the calumet.
-
-“The Omaha and cognate names for this dance and chant signify ‘to make
-a sacred kinship,’ but not ‘to dance.’ This is a key to the esoteric
-significance of the use of the calumet. The one for whom the dance
-for the calumet was performed became thereby the adopted son of the
-performer. One might ask another to dance the Calumet dance for him, or
-one might offer to perform this dance for another, but in either case
-the offer or invitation could be declined.
-
-“Charlevoix (1721) says that if the calumet is offered and accepted it
-is the custom to smoke in the calumet, and the engagements contracted
-are held sacred and inviolable, in just so far as such human things
-are inviolable. The Indians profess that the violation of such an
-engagement never escapes just punishment. In the heat of battle, if
-an adversary offer the calumet to his opponent and he accept it, the
-weapons on both sides are at once laid down; but to accept or to
-refuse the offer of the calumet is optional. There are calumets for
-various kinds of public engagements, and when such bargains are made an
-exchange of calumets is usual, in this manner rendering the contract or
-bargain sacred.
-
-“By smoking together in the calumet the contracting parties intend
-to invoke the sun and the other gods as witnesses of the mutual
-obligations assumed by the parties, and as a guaranty the one to the
-other that they shall be fulfilled. This is accomplished by blowing the
-smoke toward the sky, the four world quarters, and the earth, with a
-suitable invocation.
-
-“There were calumets for commerce and trade and for other social and
-political purposes; but the most important were those designed for war
-and those for peace and brotherhood. It was vitally necessary, however,
-that they should be distinguishable at once, lest through ignorance
-and inattention one should become the victim of treachery. The Indians
-in general chose not or dared not to violate openly the faith attested
-by the calumet, and sought to deceive an intended victim by the use
-of a false calumet of peace in an endeavor to make the victim in some
-measure responsible for the consequences. On one occasion a band of
-Sioux, seeking to destroy some Indians and their protectors, a French
-officer and his men, presented, in the guise of friendship, twelve
-calumets, apparently of peace; but the officer, who was versed in
-such matters and whose suspicion was aroused by the number offered,
-consulted an astute Indian attached to his force, who caused him to see
-that among the twelve one of the calumet shafts was not matted with
-hair like the others, and that on the shaft was graven the figure of a
-viper, coiled around it. The officer was made to understand that this
-was the sign of covert treachery, thus frustrating the intended Sioux
-plot.”
-
-The use of the calumet was almost universal in the Mississippi valley
-and among the Plains tribes, but in the Ohio and St. Lawrence valleys
-and southward its use is not so definitely shown. The symbolism and
-ritual of the calumet reached its highest development among the Pawnee
-and neighboring Siouan tribes and the concept probably originated in
-this region.
-
- ~R. Linton.~
-
-
-
-
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-[Illustration: PLATE VI.
-
- 1. PIPE MADE FROM WALRUS TUSK, ESKIMO. 2. WOODEN PIPE, HAIDA. 3. PIPE
- OF BLACK SLATE, HAIDA.]
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-<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK USE OF TOBACCO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS ***</div>
- <div class="titlepage bold">
- <h1>USE OF TOBACCO<br />
- <span class="smaller">AMONG<br />
- NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS</span></h1>
-
- <div class="lh2 mb20"><span class="small">BY</span><br />
- RALPH LINTON<br />
- <span class="smcap small">Assistant Curator of North American Ethnology</span></div>
-
- <div class="figcenter">
- <img class="illowp50" src="images/signet.jpg" alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="smcap mt20 lh2">Anthropology<br />
- Leaflet 15</div>
-
- <div class="mt20">FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY<br />
- <span class="small">CHICAGO</span><br />
- <span class="xsmall">1924</span></div>
- </div>
-
- <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
- <div class="figcenter" id="PLATE_I">
- <div class="caption">PLATE I.</div>
- <img class="illowp100" src="images/frontis.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">PAWNEE PRIESTS MAKING A SMOKE OFFERING.</div>
- </div>
-
- <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
- <div class="chapter bold">
- <span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">1</span>
- <div class="smcap large center">Field Museum of Natural History</div>
- <div class="center small">DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY<br />
- <span class="smcap small">Chicago, 1924</span></div>
-
- <div class="smcap small bt bb mt2">Leaflet<span class="fright">Number 15</span></div>
-
- <h2 class="nobreak">Use of Tobacco among North American Indians</h2>
- </div>
-
- <p>Tobacco has been one of the most important gifts from the New World
- to the Old. In spite of the attempts of various authors to prove its
- Old World origin there can be no doubt that it was introduced into
- both Europe and Africa from America. Most species of <i>Nicotiana</i>
- are native to the New World, and there are only a few species which
- are undoubtedly extra-American. The custom of smoking is also
- characteristic of America. It was thoroughly established throughout
- eastern North and South America at the time of the discovery; and
- the early explorers, from Columbus on, speak of it as a strange and
- novel practice which they often find it hard to describe. It played
- an important part in many religious ceremonies, and the beliefs and
- observances connected with it are in themselves proof of its antiquity.
- Hundreds of pipes have been found in the pre-Columbian mounds and
- village sites of the eastern United States and, although these remains
- cannot be dated, some of them must be of considerable age. In the
- southwestern United States the Basket Makers, an ancient people whose
- remains are found below those of the prehistoric Cliff Dwellers, were
- smoking pipes at a time which could not have been much later than the
- beginning of our era.</p>
-
- <p>At the time of the discovery of America, tobacco was in use over the
- greater part of the continent. It<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">2</span> was not used in the sub-Arctic
- regions of North America or in the extreme southern part of Southern
- America. On the west coast of South America and in the Andean highlands
- it was replaced by another narcotic, coca (<i>Erythroxylum coca</i>),
- from which the modern drug cocaine is extracted. The coca leaves were
- dried and chewed with powdered lime. Tobacco was smoked throughout most
- of its range, but the tribes of the northwest coast of North America
- mixed it with shell lime and made it into small pellets which were
- allowed to dissolve in the mouth. The tribes of Washington, Oregon and
- a great part of California used it in the same way, but also smoked it.
- Along the eastern side of the Andean highlands in South America tobacco
- was both smoked and chewed. The chewing tobacco was prepared like the
- Andean coca, and the idea was probably borrowed from coca chewing.</p>
-
- <p>Although Europeans learned the custom of smoking from the Indians and
- even copied the Indian smoking appliances rather closely, the modern
- American custom of tobacco chewing may not be of Indian origin. None of
- the North American Indians east of the Rocky Mountains chewed tobacco,
- and the only point at which South American tobacco chewing reached the
- Atlantic Coast was a small region in northern Colombia. Modern chewing
- tobacco lacks the admixture of powdered lime, which was considered
- necessary by all Indian tobacco chewers and seems to have been an
- invention of the white frontiersmen. It is possible, however, that the
- idea of tobacco chewing was carried to the English colonies by the
- Spaniards, who may have learned it from the South American Indians.</p>
-
- <p>The North American Indians used at least nine species of
- <i>Nicotiana</i>, most of which were cultivated. <i>Nicotiana
- tabacum</i>, the species to which practically all the modern commercial
- tobaccos belong, was grown <span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">3</span>throughout Mexico, the West Indies,
- and in northern and eastern South America. It was unknown north of
- Mexico until its introduction into Virginia by the English colonists.
- <i>Nicotiana rustica</i>, a much hardier species with a yellow flower,
- was grown by the Indians of the eastern United States and Canada as far
- west as the great plains and as far north as agriculture was possible.
- It was the first tobacco grown in Virginia for the European trade, but
- was soon supplanted there by <i>N. tabacum</i>. Small patches of it are
- still cultivated by some of the Central Algonquian tribes who use it in
- their ceremonies. <i>N. attenuata</i> was used over a larger area than
- any other species. It is found in its natural state in the southwestern
- United States and southern plains, and as a cultivated plant extends
- northward into western Canada and British Columbia. It was also
- cultivated on the lower Colorado, but the typical Pueblo tribes do not
- seem to have raised it. <i>N. multivalvis</i> was grown in Washington
- and Oregon, as well as by the Crow, who lived on the western edge of
- the plains. A related species (<i>N. quadrivalvis</i>) was grown by the
- settled tribes along the Missouri river. Still another species (<i>N.
- biglovii</i>) was used by the California tribes, and is known to have
- been cultivated by the Hupa. The three last-named species are rather
- closely related; it seems probable that <i>N. multivalvis</i> and <i>N.
- quadrivalvis</i> were brought into the plains area from the west,
- displacing <i>N. attenuata</i>.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="PLATE_II">
- <div class="caption">PLATE II.</div>
- <img class="illowp63" src="images/i002.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.</div>
- <p class="caption">1.&#160;BOWL OF BASKETMAKER PIPE.&#8195;2.&#160;BOWLS OF SOUTHWESTERN TUBULAR
- PIPES.&#8195;3.&#160;SOUTHWESTERN TUBULAR PIPE, SANDSTONE.&#8195;4.&#160;CALIFORNIA CLAY
- PIPE.&#8195;5.&#160;CALIFORNIA STEATITE PIPE.&#8195;6.&#160;PIPE WITH STEATITE BOWL AND WOODEN STEM,
- AND PIPE CASE, CALIFORNIA.</p>
- </div>
-
- <p>There is very little information available on the aboriginal methods of
- tobacco culture in the eastern United States. Early writers say that it
- was not grown with other crops, as it was believed to be injurious to
- them, and was usually cultivated by men. Mr. Milford Chandler informs
- me that the Cayuga, in New York State, had permanent tobacco beds in
- which the plant was grown year after year. These beds were lightly
- manured from time to time, but were not<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">4</span> cultivated, and the plants
- were left to propagate themselves. The leaves were gathered, but the
- stems, with the seed pods, were left standing in the patch. The Seneca,
- another tribe of the Iroquois confederacy, simply scattered the seeds
- on the ground and had a religious prohibition against cultivating the
- plant. Mr. Alanson Skinner informs me that the Kickapoo and Potawatomi
- made large brush piles fifty or more feet long and ten or twelve feet
- wide which they fired about the middle of June. When the ashes were
- cold, the ground was hoed up, mixed with the ashes, and planted with
- tobacco and pumpkins. The tobacco gardens were made in the woods,
- remote from the villages, and were surrounded by brush fences. The
- Sauk also planted their tobacco in the ashes of brush-fires, but
- did not break the ground or cultivate the crop. In some cases they
- simply threw a handful of seeds on the ground near the lodge. The
- Kickapoo, Potawatomi and Sauk all gathered the leaves of the plant in
- late August. They spread them on hides or blankets, and when they had
- wilted, rolled them like tea-leaves. When dry, the leaves were crushed.
- The reason assigned for the rolling was that leaves treated in this way
- did not crush to fine powder like those that had been dried flat. Most
- of the eastern tribes grew only enough tobacco for their own needs,
- but one, the Tionontati, raised large quantities of it for export and,
- on this account, were called Tobacco People (Nation de Petun) by the
- French.</p>
-
- <p>The best published account of aboriginal tobacco-culture is that given
- to G. L. Wilson by Buffalobird-woman, an old member of the Hidatsa
- tribe. The Hidatsa raised a different species of tobacco from the
- eastern Indians (<i>N. quadrivalvis</i>), and their methods were
- somewhat different. She says, “The old men of the tribe who smoked each
- had a tobacco garden planted not very far away from our corn-fields,
- but<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">5</span> never in the same plot with one. Tobacco gardens were planted
- apart, because the tobacco plants have a strong smell which affects
- the corn; if tobacco is planted near the corn, the growing corn-stalks
- turn yellow, and the corn is not so good. Tobacco seed was planted at
- the same time sunflower seed was planted (as early in April as the
- soil could be worked). The owner took a hoe and made soft every foot
- of the tobacco garden; and with a rake he made the loosened soil level
- and smooth. He marked the ground with a stick into rows about eighteen
- inches apart, and sowed the seed very thickly in the row. He covered
- the newly sowed soil very lightly with earth which he raked with his
- hand. When rain came and warmth, the seed sprouted. The plants came up
- thickly so that they had to be thinned out. The owner of the garden
- would weed out the weak plants, leaving only the stronger standing. The
- earth about each plant was hilled up with a buffalo rib into a little
- hill like a corn hill. A very old man, I remember, used a big buffalo
- rib, sharpened on the edge, to work the soil and cultivate his tobacco.
- He caught the rib by both ends with the edge downward; and stooping
- over, he scraped the soil toward him, now and then raising the rib
- up and loosening the earth with the point at one end. He knelt as he
- worked.</p>
-
- <p>“Tobacco plants began to blossom about the middle of June; and picking
- then began. Tobacco was gathered in two harvests. The first harvest
- was these blossoms, which we reckoned the best part of the plant
- for smoking. Blossoms were picked regularly every fourth day. If we
- neglected to pick them until the fifth day, the blossoms would begin
- to seed. Only the green part of the blossom was kept. When we fetched
- the blossoms home to the lodge, my father would spread a dry hide on
- the floor in front of his sacred objects and spread the blossoms on the
- hide to dry.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">6</span> The smoke hole of the lodge, being rather large, would
- let through quite a strong sunbeam, and the drying blossoms were kept
- directly in the beam.</p>
-
- <p>“When the blossoms had quite dried, my father fetched them over near
- the fireplace and took a piece of buffalo fat, thrust it on the end of
- a stick and roasted it slowly over the coals. He touched it lightly
- here and there to the piled up blossoms, so as to oil them slightly,
- but not too much. Now and then he would gently stir the pile of
- blossoms with a little stick, so that the whole mass might be oiled
- equally. When my father wanted to smoke these dried blossoms, he
- chopped them fine with a knife, a pipeful at a time. The blossoms were
- always dried in the lodge: If dried without, the sun and air took away
- their strength.</p>
-
- <p>“About harvest time, just before frost came, the rest of the plants
- were gathered. He dried the plants in the lodge. For this he took
- sticks, about fifteen inches long, and thrust them over the beam
- between two of the exterior supporting posts, so that the sticks
- pointed a little upwards. On each of these sticks he hung two or three
- tobacco plants by thrusting the plants, root up, upon the stick, but
- without tying them. When the tobacco plants were quite dry, the leaves
- readily fell off. It was the stems that furnished most of the smoking.
- They were treated like the blossoms, with buffalo fat. We did not treat
- tobacco with buffalo fat except as needed for use, and to be put into
- the tobacco pouch ready for smoking.</p>
-
- <p>“Before putting the tobacco away in the cache pit, my father was
- careful to put aside seed for the next year’s planting. He gathered the
- black seeds into a small bundle about as big as a baby’s fist, wrapping
- them in a piece of soft skin which he tied with a string. He made two
- or three of these bundles and tied them to the top of his bed, or to a
- post nearby, where there was no danger of their being disturbed.”</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="PLATE_III">
- <div class="caption">PLATE III.</div>
- <img class="illowp64" src="images/i006.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.</div>
- <p class="caption">1.&#160;PIPE OF ANTELOPE BONE, CHEYENNE.&#8195;2–3.&#160;STEATITE PIPES, JOHNSON
- COUNTY, ILLINOIS.&#8195;4–5.&#160;LARGE STEATITE PIPES, SOUTHEASTERN UNITED
- STATES.</p>
- </div>
-
- <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">7</span></p>
-
- <p>The Blackfoot and Crow, nomadic tribes of the western Plains who raised
- no food crops, cultivated small patches of tobacco for ceremonial use.
- The ground was cleared of weeds and grass, and the seed planted in
- holes about two inches deep, made with a pointed stick. The gardens
- were weeded from time to time, but do not seem to have been regularly
- cultivated. In both tribes tobacco culture was attended by elaborate
- ceremonies. Among the Crow it was in the hands of a society which
- also played an important part in the social life of the tribe. The
- right to plant tobacco was considered a special privilege which could
- be obtained only through a revelation from some supernatural being
- or through adoption by a person who had received such a revelation.
- The adopted person could, in turn, adopt others. Any person might
- receive such a revelation, and the society was composed of a number
- of divisions or chapters which derived their right to plant from
- different revelations and differed in their songs and in details of
- their ceremonies. Within the chapter there were certain rights, such
- as that of mixing seed before planting, which could only be acquired
- by purchase. Both men and women were eligible to membership, and the
- society held assemblages for dancing throughout the year.</p>
-
- <p>Some of the tribes west of the Rocky Mountains also cultivated tobacco,
- although there is little information on their methods. On the Columbia
- River and in northern California a stump or fallen log was burned, and
- the tobacco seed scattered in the ashes.</p>
-
- <p>Most of the North American Indians mixed their tobacco with other herbs
- before smoking it. Among the more northern tribes, especially those who
- did not raise tobacco themselves, this was done partly through motives
- of economy, but the mixture was also designed to improve the flavor,
- as in our own commercial<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">8</span> blends. The favorite smoke of the tribes of
- the eastern United States and Canada was called kinnikinnick, from an
- Algonquian word meaning “that which is mixed.” Each tribe had its own
- formula for this mixture, but it usually consisted of tobacco, sumac
- leaves, and the inner bark of a species of dogwood. The bark and leaves
- of a number of other plants were sometimes added or substituted. A
- little oil was usually added to the mixture to bind the dust, which
- would otherwise irritate the smoker’s throat and clog the pipe.
- Kinnikinnick was milder than pure tobacco, and was preferred by most
- Indians and by many white hunters and settlers. The Pueblo Indians of
- the Southwest smoked various mixtures of tobacco and herbs in their
- religious ceremonies. The greatest care was used in compounding these
- ceremonial mixtures, and the plants were valued largely according to
- the distance from which they came. The California Indians diluted their
- tobacco with manzanita leaves or mixed it with Jamestown weed, itself a
- powerful narcotic. The choicest smoking mixture of the ancient Mexicans
- was made from tobacco and the gum of the liquidambar tree.</p>
-
- <p>Three main methods of smoking were used by the American aborigines.
- The natives of northern and central South America and the West
- Indies were cigar smokers. The Central Americans and Mexicans were
- predominantly cigarette smokers, although some of the ancient Mexicans
- also used pipes. The North American Indians, with the exception of the
- Pueblo tribes of the Southwest, were exclusively pipe-smokers. The
- distribution of these three methods in America has strongly influenced
- European smoking customs. The Mediterranean nations, who learned the
- use of tobacco from cigar and cigarette using Indians, still prefer
- to smoke it in these forms. The English, who came in<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">9</span> contact with
- the pipe-smoking Indians of the eastern United States are still
- predominantly pipe-smokers. The custom of cigarette-smoking did not
- become general in northern Europe and the United States until quite
- recent times, and the vigorous opposition which it has met here seems
- to be due quite as much to its novelty as to any proved injurious
- effects.</p>
-
- <p>Aboriginal cigars were practically identical with those now in use and
- were smoked in the same way.</p>
-
- <p>The aboriginal cigarette was made with a corn-husk wrapper and
- contained much less tobacco than the modern commercial variety.
- It is still in use throughout most of Mexico and Central America
- and among the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States.
- Archæological finds prove that the southwestern tribes smoked pipes
- or reed cigarettes in ancient times, and the corn-husk cigarette may
- have been introduced from Mexico during the early historic period.
- In recent times the spread of the Peyote cult, which originated in
- the southwestern Plains, has carried the corn-husk cigarette to many
- northern tribes who were unfamiliar with it even a generation ago. The
- Mexicans and Pueblo Indians also smoked reed cigarettes in ancient
- times, and the Hopi form may be taken as typical. It consisted of a
- small reed, not over two and a half inches long, packed with powdered
- tobacco. A band of some fabric was usually bound around the reed,
- leaving a flap hanging down by which it was held. Hundreds of the
- charred butts of such cigarettes have been found in the prehistoric
- ruins of the Southwest, but they are lacking in the lower archæological
- levels, and the earliest inhabitants of the region were probably pipe
- and not cigarette smokers.</p>
-
- <p>The Dakota say that they did not use pipes in ancient times, but smoked
- their tobacco in a hole in the ground. A similar method was used by
- the Cree<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">10</span> as a makeshift. Hind says, “I asked the Indian what he
- would do for a smoke until he had finished the new pipe. He arose and
- walking to the edge of the swamp cut four reeds, and joined some pieces
- together. After he had made a hole through the joints, he gently pushed
- one extremity in a slanting direction into the earth, which he had
- previously made firm by pressure with his foot. He then cut out a small
- hole in the clay, above the extremity of the reed, and molding it with
- his fingers, laughingly said: ‘Now give me tobacco, and I will show you
- how to smoke it.’ He then filled the hole with a mixture of tobacco and
- bearberry, placed a live coal on the top, and stretching himself at
- full length on the ground, with his chin supported by both hands, he
- took the reed between his lips and enjoyed a long smoke.”</p>
-
- <p>Indian pipes were of two main types,—straight pipes, in which the
- tobacco cavity and stem were in the same plane, as in a modern cigar
- holder, and elbow pipes, in which the bowl was inclined upward. The
- straight pipe was known throughout practically the whole of America
- north of Mexico, but was rare in the eastern United States. It was
- used to the practical exclusion of all other forms in the southwestern
- United States and on the Pacific coast. The elaborately decorated
- smoking tubes of the Mexicans, mentioned by early Spanish writers,
- may have been straight pipes, but many of them were probably cane
- cigarettes. The elbow pipe was the dominant form in the eastern United
- States and Great Plains, and also in eastern and southern South
- America. It was used to a limited extent by the prehistoric Mexicans
- and in southern California, and was not unknown in the Southwest. In
- historic times it has come into use in British Columbia and Alaska,
- regions in which tobacco was not originally smoked.</p>
-
- <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">11</span></p>
-
- <p>The earliest pipes which can be even approximately dated are those of
- the Basket Makers, a people who lived in the southwestern United States
- in ancient times. Their remains are found below those of the Cliff
- Dwellers, and evidence along several lines indicates that they were
- living in the region by the beginning of the Christian era and had been
- absorbed or driven out by <span class="allsmcap">A.D.</span> 1000. A number of their pipes
- have been found. They are of the straight type and are usually quite
- small, short, and heavy, with separate stems about two inches long
- (<a href="#PLATE_II">Pl.&#160;II</a>, No.&#160;1). The bowls are made of stone, unbaked clay, or, rarely,
- wood; and the stems of wood or bird-bone. The stems are attached with
- pitch. Many of these pipes are heavily caked, and they were probably
- used for personal as well as ceremonial smoking. It is impossible
- to tell whether the Basket Makers used tobacco in these pipes and
- analyses of the cake have yielded only negative results. If they did
- use tobacco, it was probably the wild native species (<i>Nicotiana
- attenuata</i>).</p>
-
- <p>The Cliff Dwellers and ancient Pueblo tribes who succeeded the Basket
- Makers used straight pipes of a somewhat different type. They were
- usually longer and more slender than the Basket Maker pipes with
- somewhat thinner walls. The smaller examples, which were probably
- intended for personal use, seem to have had separate stems (<a href="#PLATE_II">Plate&#160;II</a>,
- No.&#160;2). Large tubular pipes, shaped like half a cigar, are also found,
- but were probably used only in ceremonial smoking. They are made of
- clay or soft stone and often show beautiful workmanship (<a href="#PLATE_II">Pl.&#160;II</a>, No.
- 3). Roughly made clay pipes of this sort, popularly known as “cloud
- blowers,” are still used by the Hopi in their ceremonies.</p>
-
- <p>The California Indians, with the exception of the Diegueño, also used
- the straight pipe, and the form<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">12</span> is probably as ancient there as in
- the Southwest. There were various tribal and regional differences in
- the shape and material. Wooden pipes without separate stems were of
- nearly universal occurrence, and were probably the earliest form. In
- some regions they were carved and inlaid with abalone shell. Pipes
- of unbaked clay with wooden stems were used in a few localities (<a href="#PLATE_II">Pl.&#160;II</a>,
- No.&#160;4), but the finest California pipes were made of steatite
- or soapstone (<a href="#PLATE_II">Pl.&#160;II</a>, No.&#160;5). They were usually provided with short
- mouthpieces of wood or bone. The Hupa of northern California used a
- pipe with a small steatite bowl accurately fitted into a cavity in the
- end of a long tapering wooden stem (<a href="#PLATE_II">Pl.&#160;II</a>, No.&#160;6).</p>
-
- <p>Several of the tribes of the Great Plains used straight pipes in
- ancient times. These pipes were made from the leg bone of an antelope
- wrapped with sinew at the bowl end (<a href="#PLATE_III">Pl.&#160;III</a>, No.&#160;1). In some cases the
- whole pipe was covered with rawhide or membrane. The Arapaho say that
- they used this form exclusively in early times, and the sacred pipe of
- the tribe is straight with a black stone bowl and a long tubular wooden
- stem. A pipe of the same form, but with a red stone bowl, was used by
- the Cheyenne in their Sun Dance, and the Crow have made straight stone
- pipe bowls until quite recent times (<a href="#PLATE_V">Pl.&#160;V</a>, No.&#160;3).</p>
-
- <p>A number of straight pipes of stone and clay have been found in the
- eastern United States, but there seems to be no record of their use
- by the historic tribes. The examples shown (<a href="#PLATE_III">Pl.&#160;III</a>, Nos.&#160;2–3) are
- from Johnson County, Illinois. They are made from close-grained
- greenish brown steatite, a material soft enough to be easily worked
- with flint tools, but capable of taking a fine polish. The large size
- and excellent finish of these pipes indicates that they were intended
- for ceremonial rather than personal use. The bird pipe is eight and
- a quarter inches long, with an<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">13</span> internal bowl diameter of one and
- a quarter inches, and is an unusually good example of aboriginal
- sculpture. The eye sockets are roughly finished, and were probably
- inlaid with some other material.</p>
-
- <p>Straight pipes are easier to make than elbow pipes, but have certain
- disadvantages. They have to be directed upward in smoking to keep the
- tobacco from falling out of the bowl, and the tobacco dust and juices
- are drawn down into the stem with results familiar to all smokers. To
- prevent this, many tribes are said to have put a pebble or pellet of
- clay in the bottom of the bowl before filling it. Even a slight angle
- between the bowl and stem is a great convenience to the smoker, and
- this improvement once hit upon, perhaps through faulty workmanship, the
- development of the elbow pipe was easy. Pipes from different parts of
- North America show all degrees of bowl inclination from the straight
- tube to a right angle, and there can be little doubt that the main
- evolution of the elbow pipe was along this line. In the Mississippi
- Valley and Great Plains there are, however, certain types of elbow pipe
- which could hardly have been developed in this way. In these the bowl
- rests upon a base which extends out for some distance in front of it.
- From various archæological finds it seems probable that these types
- were developed from pipes which had a corn-cob bowl pierced through the
- base with a reed stem.</p>
-
- <p>North American elbow pipes have never been satisfactorily classified,
- but about twenty types are distinguishable. Only the more important
- of these can be mentioned here. Most of the types show a more or
- less continuous geographical distribution, but there was no tribe or
- region in which all the pipes were of the same type. The Chippewa
- distinguished four types of pipe which were in simultaneous use among
- them. These were—(1) Women’s pipes, which were<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">14</span> small, with short
- stems and little decoration. (2) Men’s pipes for ordinary smoking,
- which were somewhat larger and better made than the women’s pipes, but
- were also small. (3) Personal pipes of famous warriors, which were
- larger than the ordinary pipes, with heavy decorated stems sometimes
- as much as five feet long. (4) Chief’s pipes and ceremonial pipes,
- which were large, with long stems like the warrior’s pipes, and were
- elaborately decorated. Even the pipes for ordinary smoking were highly
- valued and would often be carved and decorated in the owner’s spare
- time. Stone for pipe-making, and even finished pipes, seem to have been
- bartered from tribe to tribe in ancient times.</p>
-
- <p>The Indians made their pipes from many materials. Most of the
- prehistoric pipes are of stone or clay, but early records prove that
- wood, horn, and bone were also used by the tribes of the Atlantic Coast
- at the time of their first contact with Europeans. Almost all the
- pipes made of these perishable materials have been destroyed, but they
- were probably of the same types as the stone and clay pipes from this
- region. Clay pipes were in at least occasional use throughout the whole
- of North America east of the Great Plains, but the finest examples
- are found in the old Iroquois territory in New York State and Canada,
- and in the southeastern United States. Stone pipes are found from the
- Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains and seem to have been preferred
- by all those tribes among whom pottery making was poorly developed.</p>
-
- <p>Large numbers of Iroquoian clay pipes have been found in old cemeteries
- and village sites, and their form makes them easily distinguishable in
- collections. They are made of fine hard-burned clay and have a graceful
- trumpet shape, with rather long slender bowls and short stems (<a href="#PLATE_IV">Pl.&#160;IV</a>,
- No.&#160;3). The upper part of the bowl is often encircled by a band of
- <span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">15</span>incised designs or modeled into a human face or bird’s head. They
- were not provided with separate stems. </p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="PLATE_IV">
- <div class="caption">PLATE IV.</div>
- <img class="illowp64" src="images/i014.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.</div>
- <p class="caption">1.&#160;MONITOR PIPE, HOPEWELL MOUNDS, OHIO.&#8195;2.&#160;BIRD AND FISH PIPE, HOPEWELL
- MOUNDS, OHIO.&#8195;3.&#160;IROQUOIS CLAY PIPE.&#8195;4.&#160;CATAWBA CLAY PIPES (MODERN).&#8195;5.&#160;MEXICAN
- CLAY PIPES (TOLTEC?).</p>
- </div>
-
- <p>Archæological finds on the Atlantic coast prove that the Indians of
- that region also used small clay pipes, although the early visitors
- only mention large pipes with excessively long stems. It seems probable
- that the larger forms were semi-ceremonial, like the warrior’s and
- chief’s pipes of the Chippewa, while the small pipes were used for
- individual smoking. Many of these small pipes resemble rather closely
- the early European trade pipes, and modern clay pipes and straight
- briers, but the type is unquestionably pre-European. It was probably
- the prototype from which modern European pipes were developed. Some of
- the ancient pipes were made in one piece, while others were evidently
- provided with separate stems, probably reeds. Identical forms were made
- in stone in this region.</p>
-
- <p>In the southeastern United States short clay pipes with reed or
- wooden stems seem to have been in common use. They were often rather
- elaborately decorated, with modeled figures of birds, clay pellets, or
- incised designs. This form of pipe is still in use among the Catawba,
- although many of their pipes show the influence of European models (<a href="#PLATE_IV">Pl.&#160;IV</a>,
- No.&#160;4).</p>
-
- <p>Pottery pipes with flaring bowls and slender stems, sometimes as much
- as eighteen inches long, are found in prehistoric Caddoan sites in
- Arkansas. The stems are excessively fragile, and as these pipes are
- usually found in the corners of graves, it seems probable that they
- were made for mortuary use rather than actual smoking. They are clearly
- imitations of a type which had a corn-cob bowl impaled on a reed stem.</p>
-
- <p>Stone pipes occur over a wider territory than pottery pipes and show
- a greater diversity of form. There are some regions in which the same
- shapes occur in both stone and pottery, but there are several<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">16</span> types of
- pipe which appear never to have been made of clay. Most of the stones
- used in pipe-making were quite soft, but a few pipes of quartzite and
- other hard rocks have been found. The material was carefully selected,
- and was usually obtained from regular quarries. In the eastern United
- States steatite, serpentine and slate were the stones most used. In the
- upper Mississippi valley and Great Plains the favorite material was
- catlinite, a fine-grained claystone soft enough to be easily worked
- with stone tools, but firm enough to take a high polish. Deposits of
- this material have been found in several states, and a local variety
- was used by the Ohio Mound Builders. The most famous catlinite quarries
- are in southeastern Minnesota and yield the highly prized red stone
- from which so many Plains Indian pipes are made. Here the catlinite
- occurs as a narrow layer, nowhere more than twenty inches thick,
- between strata of compact quartzite five to eight feet thick. To reach
- the catlinite it was necessary to break away the quartzite with stone
- mauls or shatter it by building large fires upon it and then dashing
- water on the heated stone. The old Indian workings extend for more than
- a mile along the face of the deposit, and the quarry must have been in
- use for several centuries. According to Indian traditions, the place
- was visited by many different tribes, who considered it common property
- and abstained from hostilities there. In historic times the Dakota
- considered it exclusively their property, and part of it was set aside
- for their use when they ceded their other lands in the vicinity. They
- still visit it occasionally to obtain stone for their pipes. White men
- have also worked the quarry, and in 1865 and 1866 over two thousand
- pipes of this material were made by the Northwestern Fur Company for
- their trade with the Indians.</p>
-
- <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">17</span></p>
-
- <p>The finest aboriginal pipes are unquestionably the so-called monitor
- pipes found in the Ohio mounds. Many of these show such excellence
- of design and execution that early investigators doubted whether
- they could be the work of American Indians. They are made of soft
- stone or of fire clay, which was carved like stone, but never of
- pottery. The type is characterized by a long, broad, and very thin
- base from the center of which the bowl rises vertically. The base may
- be either flat or convex. The bowl is often made in the form of an
- animal or bird, and some of these effigies show artistic ability of
- a high order. Even when the style is impressionistic, the species is
- usually unmistakable. The significance of these carvings can only be
- conjectured, but so many species are shown that it seems probable that
- they represent the personal guardians of the pipes’ owners. None of the
- historic tribes used pipes of this type, and the finest examples are
- unquestionably pre-Columbian. One of the pipes illustrated (<a href="#PLATE_IV">Pl.&#160;IV</a>, No.&#160;1)
- is of typical monitor form, but has the bowl incised with designs
- representing bird’s heads. In the other (<a href="#PLATE_VI">Pl.&#160;IV</a>, No.&#160;2) the shape has
- been modified to suit the subject, a roseate spoonbill resting on the
- back of some large water animal, probably a mud puppy (<i>Necturus
- maculosus</i>).</p>
-
- <p>A number of large stone pipes have been found in the southeastern
- United States (<a href="#PLATE_III">Pl.&#160;III</a>, Nos.&#160;4–5). Some of these pipes weigh several
- pounds and, as they are everywhere associated with smaller forms of
- stone or clay, they were probably made for ceremonial use. They seem
- to have been provided with long, thick wooden stems. These heavy pipes
- are of several types, and are usually well made, but are inferior to
- the monitor pipes in design and execution. In Georgia, Alabama, and
- the lower Mississippi valley there is a very massive short type in
- which the bowl and stem<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">18</span> holes are conical and of nearly equal size
- and depth. These biconical pipes are often made in the form of human
- effigies or of highly conventionalized animals or birds.</p>
-
- <p>Early visitors to the north Atlantic Coast say that the Indians of
- that region used heavy carved pipes with stems three to six feet long.
- Large stone pipes are hardly ever found in this region, and even small
- carved pipes are extremely rare. It seems probable that these early
- forms either had quite small, plain bowls with heavy carved stems, or
- were made of wood or other perishable material. Holm says that the
- Pennsylvania Indians made their pipe bowls of horn, and several of the
- Algonquian tribes have made a considerable use of carved wooden pipes
- in historic times. Among many tribes the stems of ceremonial pipes were
- elaborately decorated, and were considered more important than the
- bowls.</p>
-
- <p>Plains Indian pipes are commoner in collections than those from any
- other region. The Blackfoot preferred pipes of black stone, with
- acorn-shaped bowls reminiscent of those in use among the Micmac and
- other northeastern Algonquian tribes (<a href="#PLATE_V">Pl.&#160;V</a>, No.&#160;4), but throughout
- most of the Plains the favorite pipe was made of Minnesota catlinite,
- and was of Sioux type (<a href="#PLATE_V">Pl.&#160;V</a>, Nos.&#160;6–8). This type is common in museums
- and private collections. It has a tubular bowl set vertically on a long
- base which projects beyond the bowl as a pointed spur. This projecting
- base is also found in the monitor pipes, and the two types may be
- remotely related. Pipes of the Sioux type have been made in great
- numbers by both whites and Indians, and many of those in collections
- were probably manufactured by whites. Either early white traders, or
- the tribes on the eastern edge of the Plains originated the practice of
- inlaying the bowls and bases with lead. The pipe was cut to nearly its
- final <span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">19</span>form, and a clay mold made. Deep grooves were then cut in the
- stone to receive the lead, and the pipe was returned to the mold, and
- the metal poured. The metal and stone were then rubbed down to a smooth
- surface. Valuable pipes which had been broken were sometimes repaired
- in this way.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="PLATE_V">
- <div class="caption">PLATE V.</div>
- <img class="illowp100" src="images/i018.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">AMERICAN INDIAN TOBACCO PIPES.</div>
- <p class="caption">1–2.&#160;PAWNEE SACRED PIPES.&#8195;3.&#160;CHEYENNE SUN-DANCE PIPE.&#8195;4.&#160;BLACKFOOT
- PIPE.&#8195;5–7.&#160;CHEYENNE PIPES.&#8195;6–8.&#160;SIOUX PIPES.&#8195;9.&#160;PIPE TAMPER, SIOUX.
- 10.&#160;PIPE BAG, SIOUX.</p>
- </div>
-
- <p>All Plains Indian pipes, with the exception of the straight bone pipes
- previously noted, were provided with long, heavy, wooden stems. Some
- tribes preferred tubular, others flat stems. In ancient times most of
- the long pipe stems were probably split lengthwise, the smoke passage
- excavated, and the two halves glued together. Some of the northern
- and western tribes used a solid tubular stem which they pierced by an
- ingenious method. They selected a young ash shoot which had a small
- pith cavity in the center and caught a wood-boring grub. They made a
- hole in one end of the shoot and inserted the grub, closing the opening
- behind it. The shoot was then hung over a fire, and the grub, following
- the pith as the line of least resistance, drilled a hole through the
- shaft from end to end. When it emerged, it was captured and returned
- to the place where it had been found with appropriate thanks. Split
- tubular stems are rather unsatisfactory, as the halves are liable to
- warp and separate. The broad, flat pipe-stem was probably invented to
- give a wider surface for the glue and hence a firmer joint. It reached
- its highest development among the Dakota, and they seem to have been
- the inventors of the “puzzle stem,” a broad, flat stem pierced with
- designs so that the smoke passage had to make several turns between
- the pipe-bowl and mouth-piece. Pipe stems were often decorated with
- elaborate wrappings which helped to hold the halves together.</p>
-
- <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">20</span></p>
-
- <p>A peculiar form of pipe, which may be a variant of the Sioux type, is
- found in a limited area in the upper Mississippi valley. These pipes
- usually have bases with long projecting spurs, but the bowl is smaller
- than the stem hole and very low. It is surrounded by a broad, thin disk
- sometimes as much as three and a half inches across. Some of these
- “disk pipes” suggest the shallow-bowled pipes of the Asiatics, but the
- form is certainly prehistoric. Pipes of this type are rare, and were
- probably made for ceremonial use. One of the sacred pipes of the Omaha
- is of this sort.</p>
-
- <p>Although all the Mexican Indians were predominantly cigarette-smokers,
- ancient clay pipes of elbow type have been found in the valley of
- Mexico (<a href="#PLATE_IV">Pl.&#160;IV</a>, No.&#160;5). They are not mentioned by any of the early
- Spanish writers, but the specimens found are unquestionably of native
- workmanship, and are probably prehistoric. The commonest form has a
- bulb-shaped bowl and a rather thick stem flattened on the bottom, so
- that the pipe will stand upright. The occurrence of elbow pipes in a
- limited area, far from any other in which they were known, is difficult
- to account for. Some of these pipes resemble forms in use in the
- southeastern United States and lower Mississippi valley.</p>
-
- <p>Elbow pipes were also used on the Northwest Coast and in Alaska, but
- they were introduced into these regions after the discovery of America.
- The Alaskan Eskimo apparently learned the practice of smoking from the
- natives of Siberia, and their pipes are of Asiatic type, with very
- small bowls (<a href="#PLATE_VI">Pl.&#160;VI</a>, No.&#160;1). Their best pipes are made from walrus
- tusks, and are often elaborately etched. The tusk is usually split
- lengthwise and the halves joined in such a way that they can be taken
- apart to obtain the juice distilled in smoking. The juice was mixed
- with fungus<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">21</span> ashes for chewing or with the smoking tobacco. Poorly made
- pipes of Eskimo form were used by the Athapascan tribes of interior
- Alaska, who were taught to smoke by the Eskimo.</p>
-
- <p>The Indians of the Northwest Coast chewed tobacco in ancient times, but
- did not smoke it. The more northern tribes may have adopted smoking
- from Asia by way of the Eskimo, but their pipes show little resemblance
- to the Asiatic forms, and they probably learned the practice from white
- visitors. The natives of this region are expert carvers, and nearly all
- their pipes are decorated with figures of men or totemic animals. Wood
- is the favorite material (<a href="#PLATE_VI">Pl.&#160;VI</a>, No.&#160;2), but bone and antler are also
- used and some of the tribes make very elaborate pipes of black slate
- (<a href="#PLATE_VI">Pl.&#160;VI</a>, No.&#160;3). The slate pipes are much sought after by collectors,
- and many of them seem to have been made for sale rather than use.</p>
-
- <p>Pipes are mentioned among the goods given to the Indians in some of
- the earliest English land-purchases, and they were regularly carried
- by the white traders with the Indians. An English pipe-maker, Robert
- Cotton, came to Virginia in 1608. The earliest trade pipes were made
- of clay and seem to have been patterned after the small pipes used
- for personal smoking by the coast tribes. Those made in the various
- European countries showed minor differences, but were all of nearly the
- same form. The later trade pipes show an increasing diversity in shape
- and decoration, but the whites apparently did not attempt to make the
- larger ceremonial forms. The most important contribution on the part
- of the whites to the Indian tobacco complex was the tomahawk pipe.
- This implement had a pipe-bowl above and a blade below, and could be
- used either as a pipe or as a weapon. We do not know when or where it
- originated, but it<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">22</span> apparently did not come into general use in the
- English Colonies before 1750. All the European nations equipped their
- Indian allies with tomahawk pipes, and a number of types are recognized
- by collectors. The pipe-bowl was nearly always of acorn shape, like
- the pipe used by the northeastern Algonquians, but the blade varied
- considerably. In general, the English and early American tomahawks had
- straight-edged hatchet-blades, and the French ones had diamond-shaped
- blades, like spear-heads. Spanish tomahawks had flaring blades with
- curved edges, like mediæval battle-axes. There were a number of white
- tomahawk-makers whose work differed in minor details; and fine inlaid,
- chased, or inscribed tomahawks were sometimes made for presentation to
- important chiefs.</p>
-
- <p>An Indian warrior was rarely without his pipe and tobacco, and special
- tobacco-bags were used by all the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains.
- In early times, these bags were usually made from the skins of small
- animals taken off whole. The Eastern Woodland tribes used a rather
- small bag which was tied to the belt. The Plains tribes used a larger
- bag, often made from a fawn skin, in which they carried both the pipe
- and tobacco. In historic times the northern Plains Indians have used
- long, flat rectangular bags decorated with beads or porcupine quills,
- but this type apparently is not an ancient one (<a href="#PLATE_V">Pl.&#160;V</a>, No.&#160;10). Several
- of the Plains tribes also had special boards on which the tobacco was
- cut up and elaborate pipe tampers (<a href="#PLATE_V">Pl.&#160;V</a>, No.&#160;9). These accessories
- were used mainly in ceremonial smoking. In Pawnee ceremonies the
- pipe was always tamped with an arrow captured from the enemy. It was
- forbidden to pack it with the fingers, as the gods might think that the
- man who did so offered himself with the tobacco and take his life. The
- tribes of the Northwest Coast crushed their tobacco<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">23</span> in mortars. These
- were usually made from whale vertebrae, and were often elaborately
- carved.</p>
-
- <p>Even if documentary evidence of the New World origin of tobacco were
- lacking, its importance in the religious and ceremonial life of the
- Indians would leave little doubt of the antiquity of its use among
- them. Among all the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains tobacco was the
- favorite offering to the supernatural powers, and among the Central
- Algonquians no ceremony could take place without it. As a sacrifice
- it might be burned as incense, cast into the air or on the ground, or
- buried. There were sacred places at which every visitor left a tobacco
- offering, and during storms it was thrown into lakes and rivers to
- appease the under-water powers. Smoking was indulged in on all solemn
- occasions, such as councils, and was a necessary part of most religious
- ceremonies. In such ceremonial smoking the methods of picking up,
- filling, and lighting the pipe were usually rigidly prescribed, and
- the first smoke was offered to the spirits. The methods of passing and
- holding the pipe were also prescribed and differed with the ceremony
- and even with the personal taboos of the smokers. In the religious
- ceremonies of the Hopi, the head chief was attended by an assistant
- of nearly equal rank, who ceremonially lighted the pipe, and with
- certain formalities and set words handed it to the chief, who blew the
- smoke to the world quarters and over the altar as a preliminary to his
- invocation.</p>
-
- <p>The so-called medicine-bundles, collections of sacred objects around
- which the religious life of many of the Central Algonquians and
- Plains Tribes centered, often contained pipes which were smoked in
- the ceremonies attending the opening of the bundle (<a href="#PLATE_V">Pl.&#160;V</a>, Nos.&#160;1–2).
- In some cases the pipe itself seems to have been the most important
- object, and the palladium of the Arapaho tribe is a straight pipe of
- black stone.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">24</span> Among some of the eastern Siouan tribes each clan had its
- sacred pipe which was used at namings and other clan ceremonies. The
- stems of these pipes were covered with elaborate wrappings and other
- ornaments which symbolized the various supernatural powers invoked in
- the ceremonies, and the sanctity of the pipe lay in its stem rather
- than its bowl.</p>
-
- <p>The calumet, so often mentioned in early American records, was not a
- pipe, but an elaborately decorated shaft, pierced like a pipe stem,
- to which a pipe bowl was not necessarily attached. The name itself
- is not of Indian origin, but is a Norman-French word meaning a reed
- or tube. J. N. B. Hewitt says, “From the meager descriptions of the
- calumet and its uses it would seem that it has a ceremonially symbolic
- history independent of that of the pipe; and that when the pipe became
- an altar, by its employment for burning sacrificial tobacco to the
- gods, convenience and convention united the already highly symbolic
- calumet shafts and the sacrificial tobacco altar, the pipe bowl;
- hence it became one of the most profoundly sacred objects known to
- the Indians of northern America. As the colors and other adornments
- of the shaft represent symbolically various dominant gods of the
- Indian pantheon, it follows that the symbolism of the calumet and
- pipe represented a veritable executive council of the gods. Moreover,
- in some of the elaborate ceremonies in which it was necessary to
- portray this symbolism the employment of two shafts became necessary,
- because the one with its colors and accessory adornments represented
- the procreative male power and his aid, and was denominated the male,
- the fatherhood of nature; and the other with its colors and necessary
- adornments represented the reproductive female power and her aid, and
- was denominated the female, the motherhood of nature.</p>
-
- <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">25</span></p>
-
- <p>“The calumet was employed by ambassadors and travelers as a passport;
- it was used in ceremonies designed to conciliate foreign and hostile
- nations and to conclude lasting peace; to ratify the alliance of
- friendly tribes; to secure favorable weather for journeys; to bring
- needed rain; and to attest contracts and treaties which could not
- be violated without incurring the wrath of the gods. The use of the
- calumet was inculcated by religious precept and example. A chant and a
- dance have become known as the chant and dance of the calumet; together
- they were employed as an invocation to one or more of the gods. By
- naming in the chant the souls of those against whom war must be waged,
- such persons were doomed to die at the hands of the person so naming
- them. The dance and chant were rather in honor of the calumet than with
- the calumet.</p>
-
- <p>“The Omaha and cognate names for this dance and chant signify ‘to make
- a sacred kinship,’ but not ‘to dance.’ This is a key to the esoteric
- significance of the use of the calumet. The one for whom the dance
- for the calumet was performed became thereby the adopted son of the
- performer. One might ask another to dance the Calumet dance for him, or
- one might offer to perform this dance for another, but in either case
- the offer or invitation could be declined.</p>
-
- <p>“Charlevoix (1721) says that if the calumet is offered and accepted it
- is the custom to smoke in the calumet, and the engagements contracted
- are held sacred and inviolable, in just so far as such human things
- are inviolable. The Indians profess that the violation of such an
- engagement never escapes just punishment. In the heat of battle, if
- an adversary offer the calumet to his opponent and he accept it, the
- weapons on both sides are at once laid down; but to accept or to
- refuse the offer of the calumet is optional.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">26</span> There are calumets for
- various kinds of public engagements, and when such bargains are made an
- exchange of calumets is usual, in this manner rendering the contract or
- bargain sacred.</p>
-
- <p>“By smoking together in the calumet the contracting parties intend
- to invoke the sun and the other gods as witnesses of the mutual
- obligations assumed by the parties, and as a guaranty the one to the
- other that they shall be fulfilled. This is accomplished by blowing the
- smoke toward the sky, the four world quarters, and the earth, with a
- suitable invocation.</p>
-
- <p>“There were calumets for commerce and trade and for other social and
- political purposes; but the most important were those designed for war
- and those for peace and brotherhood. It was vitally necessary, however,
- that they should be distinguishable at once, lest through ignorance
- and inattention one should become the victim of treachery. The Indians
- in general chose not or dared not to violate openly the faith attested
- by the calumet, and sought to deceive an intended victim by the use
- of a false calumet of peace in an endeavor to make the victim in some
- measure responsible for the consequences. On one occasion a band of
- Sioux, seeking to destroy some Indians and their protectors, a French
- officer and his men, presented, in the guise of friendship, twelve
- calumets, apparently of peace; but the officer, who was versed in
- such matters and whose suspicion was aroused by the number offered,
- consulted an astute Indian attached to his force, who caused him to see
- that among the twelve one of the calumet shafts was not matted with
- hair like the others, and that on the shaft was graven the figure of a
- viper, coiled around it. The officer was made to understand that this
- was the sign of covert treachery, thus frustrating the intended Sioux
- plot.”</p>
-
- <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">27</span></p>
-
- <p>The use of the calumet was almost universal in the Mississippi valley
- and among the Plains tribes, but in the Ohio and St. Lawrence valleys
- and southward its use is not so definitely shown. The symbolism and
- ritual of the calumet reached its highest development among the Pawnee
- and neighboring Siouan tribes and the concept probably originated in
- this region.</p>
-
- <div class="right smcap">R. Linton.</div>
-
- <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
- <div class="chapter">
- <h3 class="nobreak" id="BIBLIOGRAPHICAL_REFERENCES">BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES</h3>
- </div>
-
- <p class="hang">Handbook of American Indians, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin
- 30. See headings:—Calumet, Pipes, Smoking, Tobacco.</p>
-
- <p class="hang"><span class="smcap">Hind</span>—The Canadian Red River, London, 1860.</p>
-
- <p class="hang"><span class="smcap">Lowie, R. H.</span>—The Tobacco Society of the Crow Indians.
- Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.
- Vol. XXI, Pt. 2.</p>
-
- <p class="hang"><span class="smcap">Setchell, W. A.</span>—Aboriginal Tobaccos, American Anthropologist,
- Vol. XXIII, No.&#160;4, 1921.</p>
-
- <p class="hang mb5"><span class="smcap">Wilson, G. L.</span>—Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. University
- of Minnesota, Studies in Social Science, No.&#160;9.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="PLATE_VI">
- <div class="caption">PLATE VI.</div>
- <img class="illowp100" src="images/i027.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">1.&#160;PIPE MADE FROM WALRUS TUSK, ESKIMO.&#8195;2.&#160;WOODEN PIPE, HAIDA.&#8195;3.&#160;PIPE
- OF BLACK SLATE, HAIDA.</div>
- </div>
-
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