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A richly illustrated survey documents the history, botany, and ethnography of tobacco and related smoking plants alongside a catalog of pipes and smoking apparatus from around the world. It describes botanical varieties of Nicotiana, regional smoking customs, and the materials and forms of pipes — clay, briar, soapstone, gourd, hookah and opium apparatus — and reproduces historic woodcuts and maker stamps. Organized as descriptive entries with images and captions, the work compares local manufacturing traditions, ceremonial uses, and changing fashions in smoking paraphernalia across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
The Indian graves have supplied specimens of very great antiquity from all parts of N. America and a fine collection of MOUND PIPES was presented some years ago to the City of Salisbury. Those on the opposite page will give a general idea of the character of these real antiquities in which the bird is a prominent object probably some sacred Bird—in vogue amongst the tribe at the time they were made but we must not surmise “FACTA” “non Verba” is true ARCHÆOLOGY.