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cigarette was in use by (he Pimas. Most of those found were made 

 by the Ilohokain." 



To carry this sacred powder it was necessary- to have something 

 more than an ordinary receptacle, and so pouches were made of buck- 

 skin, ornanienteil in vivid colors with symbols of the sun and pro- 

 vided 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,'' 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 



Fig. 4.'^, n, h, c. Tobacco pouches. 



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 m 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. 43, h, c), is of soft deerskin, with 

 a red fringe made by parallel cuts along the edge. There are a few 



o 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 whiles. The native tobaccos a re: Nicotiana trigonophylla. 

 known as vi'opal vi'ofO, "like tobacco." gathered near Babcquivari by the Papagos and brought 

 to the Pimas; X. bigelo\ii, known as pan vi'ofCi, '"coyote tobacco." and N. attenuata. billed 

 rsi'kai .\u'tc4 vi'ofil, - undcr-the-creosote-bush tobacco." Boys learn to smoke at an early age, 

 though the use of tobacco is not encouraged. The father's favorite saj-ing in reply to a request for 

 tobacco is, ■■ I will give you some when you kill a coyote." 



t> Length, 10cm.; wiiith. 11cm.; 114 bangles. 



