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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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