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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.
Stone pipes still predominate & the upper one from South Carolina has a new form with a cut-water or fore-foot suggestive that it should be held by that part when being smoked.
The “NOOTKA SOUND” example is another variety & to our modern eye wd. appear to have been designed by a carpenter still the bowl itself carries a decidedly modern impress The modern N. American pipes are most carved in Slate and some are quite processional in design and length.