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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] tobacco and pipes
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:48:01 -0700 (PDT)

but, importantly; which species did Tonto use when he invited the Lone Ranger
to "smokeum peace pipe"?...Got you Lynda...bobford


--- On Mon, 6/23/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] tobacco and pipes
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 5:06 PM
> Rustica is native to South America. No one knows for sure
> which of the
> hybrids (rustica or tabcum) was being used, in the
> majority, on the East
> Coast. *Both* however were being used and both had
> traveled up from South
> America.
>
> Rustica is Andian. Tabacum is Bolivian.
>
> Nicotiana quadrivalvis is the species that was on the West
> Coast and points
> east to the Dakotas..
>
> Multivalvis L. is also native to the Pacific Coast and
> points east. It was
> what was used most commonly in California. It is also was
> the fav for the
> Blackfoot.
>
> HOWEVER, it wasn't, in North America, considered by
> *all* the people to be
> one of the most holy of plants. Nor was it the only plant
> used in the
> pipes. The various Nicotianas were used as a medicinal
> plant and was also
> used as a gift.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> >
> > Among all indigenous people of the Americas tobacco
> was considered one
> > of the most holy of plants.
>
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