cigarette was in use by the Pimas. Most of those found were made by the Hohokam.[1]
To carry this sacred powder it was necessary to have something more than an ordinary receptacle, and so pouches were made of buckskin, ornamented in vivid colors with symbols of the sun and provided with rattles that tinkled with every motion of the wearer. Both in shape and in ornament they closely resemble the tobacco pouches of the Apaches. There are two specimens in the National Museum. No. 27840 (fig. 43, a) is of buckskin,[2] doubled so that the opening of the pouch on the unornamented half is covered by the fold. The margin is ornamented by a fringe of short strings of buckskin passed through holes along the edge of the pouch, most of them having cylinders of tin, slightly bell-shaped, arranged in pairs and pinched into place around the thongs by pounding. The front bears a conventional symbol of the sun in red and blue. There is a short loop with which to suspend the pouch from the belt or to hang it up when not in use.
Another pouch, no. 27839 (fig. 48, b, c), is of soft deerskin, with ared fringe made by parallel cuts along the edge. There are a few
- ↑ At the present time most men and some women smoke cigarettes rolled in corn husks or paper, obtained, as is much of the tobacco, from the whites. The native tobaccos are: Nicotiana trigonophylla, known as viʼopal viʼofû, "like tobacco," gathered near Baboquivari by the Papagos and brought to the Pimas; N. bigelovii, known as pan vi’ofû, "coyote tobacco," and N. attenuata, called rsukal ʌuʼtca viʼofû, "under-the-creosote-bush tobacco." Boys learn to smoke at an early age, though the use of tobacco is not encouraged. The father's favorite saying in reply to a request for tobacco is, "I will give you some when you kill a coyote."
- ↑ Length, 10 cm.; width, 11 cm.; 114 bangles.
