PIPES 
The history of tobacco smoking pipes began 
with the discovery of tobacco by the Spaniards. 
How long before that event they were used is 
not known, but that they were used by the 
Indians and others for a long period is quite 
clear from many items of evidence. The reader 
who desires information concerning pre-Colum- 
bian tobacco pipes is referred to the Pipes and 
smoking customs of the American Aborigines, 
by J. D. McQuire, based on the material in the 
U. S. National Museum 1889, and other similar 
archaological works. 
The first mention of pipes in literature ap- 
pears to have been made by Oviedo in 1585 in 
his work La historia general de las Indias 
(Part 1). In this there is a small wood cut 
which is the oldest known picture of a pipe. 
This pipe was shaped like a Y—the two ends 
of which were placed in the nose and the to- 
bacco leaves in the stem. The smoke was inhaled. 
Oviedo says that this pipe was called “T'abaca” 
from which the name tobacco was probably de- 
rived. Admiral John Hawkins was the first to 
mention the pipe in English literature in 1564. 
Raleigh’s famous smoking feat did not take 
place until 1586. 
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