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and moulding it with his fingers, laughingly said, " Now 

 give me tobacco, and I will show you how to smoke 

 it". He filled the hole with a mixture of tobacco and 

 the bear-berry, placed a live coal on the top, and stretching 



Tobacco Pipes of the Swampys of Lake Winnipeg. * 



himself at full length on the ground, with his chin sup- 

 ported by both hands, he took the reed between his lips 

 and enjoyed a long smoke. 



Different tribes of Indians affect peculiar shapes and 

 ornaments in the manufacture of their pipes. The Ojibways 



Tobacco Pipes of the Ojibways of Rainy Lake, &c. 



of Eainy Lake and those of the same nation living on Lake 

 Winnipeg, have different patterns, but preserve a certain re- 

 semblance, which appears to be characteristic of this people. 



