374 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Prescott says the pipes used by the Mexican were "made of var- 

 nished and richly gilt wood, from which he inhaled sometimes through 

 the nose, at others through the mouth, the fames of an intoxicating 



weed called tobacco, mingled 

 with liquid amber." ' 



Diaz, however, identifies 

 them "as three little canes 

 highly ornamented, containing 

 lifiuid amber mixed with an 

 herb called tobacco, which 

 when brought" to Montezuma 

 "he took a little of the smoke 

 of one of these canes and then 

 laid himself down to sleep."-^ 



Kingsborough illustrates, in 

 his great work on the "Antiq- 

 uities of Mexico," two figures 

 of persons who appear to be 

 smoking pipes, though in the 

 Fig. 4 appears to be a warrior 

 He wears a necklace of 



Fig. 4. 



MEXICAN SMOKING. 

 Aftfr Kin-sl,..r(,u-li, \-..l. II, ],. S4. 



text he does not refer to them as such 

 who is dressed in netting with large mesh, 

 claws, and in his mouth appears to be a pipe; only the head of the figure 

 is here reproduced. The sec- 

 ond person (fig. 5) holds in hi.s 

 hand a pipe, and has in the 

 left hand, apparently, a bou- 

 quet; the object in the right 

 hand Kingsborough refers to 

 as a cane. He says these fig- 

 ures are scantily clothed to 

 show their confidence in the 

 field, as they are certain to 

 return with sufficient booty 

 to weigh them down.-' 



Clavigero speaks of the 

 Mexicans using " pijies or 

 reeds " containing tobacco 

 aiidliquid amber and "which 

 were beautifully varnished." ^ 



According to Bernal Diaz, 

 as quoted by Bancroft, these 

 pipes were painted and gilt.^ 



■Fig. 5. 



MEXICAN HOLDING PIPE. 

 After Kingsborough, Vol. II, p. 84. 



1 William H. Prescott, Historyof the Coiiqiiestof Mexico, II,p. 126, Philadelphia, 1860. 

 -True History of the C'oiKinest of Mexico, p. 140, Londou, 1800. 

 ■' Auti(|iiities of Mexico, II, p. 84. 

 'History of Mexico, I, p. 283. 



■•Hubert Howe Baucroft, The Native Races of the Pacific States, II, ]>. 178, San 

 Francisco, 1874. 



