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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Pipes. 
Of aboriginal remains the pipes used by the former inhabitants of 
this country are among the most interesting objects. On pipes the 
early races of America placed great store, and much care was given to 
their manufacture. The pipe had its place at the council, the great 
feast, and at ceremonial observances of various kinds. 
In the United States, and in western Canada, many objects of 
this kind have been found, and large numbers have been placed in 
museums. In this province, however, very few pipes have been 
found. The museums at Washington, Ottawa, Toronto, Fredericton, 
and Chatham, contain no specimens from New Brunswick. It seems 
fitting, therefore, to figure and describe the few that have been found 
within our borders. 
Father Pierre Biard, in his Relation of New France* * * § (1616), gives 
the following reference to the smoking habits of our Indians, as 
observed by him. He says : “ They also use tobacco * * * 
It is the sole delight of these people when they have some of it, and 
also certain Frenchmen are so bewitched with it that to inhale its 
fumes they would sell their shirts. All their talks, treaties, welcomes 
and endearments, are made under the fumes of this tobacco. They 
gather round the fire chatting and passing the pipe from hand to 
hand, enjoying themselves in this way for several hours. Such is 
their inclination and custom.” 
I am inclined to think that the use of the pipe had not been long 
introduced before the arrival of Europeans in this Province. In 1869 
Professor Spencer F. Baird f made careful investigation among the 
shell heaps of some parts of Charlotte County, and he found no remains 
of pipes. \ In 1883 Dr. G. F. Matthew, § assisted by other members 
of this society, made a thorough investigation of some hut bottoms 
at an undisturbed Indian village at Bocabec, and he found nothing 
to indicate that the former inhabitants of this ancient village were 
smokers. 
* Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. iii., p. 117, edition of Burrows Bros. 
Co., Cleveland, 1897. 
+ Aboriginal Shell Mounds of New Brunswick and New r England. (Proc. U S. National 
Museum for 1881, Vol. iv. (1882), pp. 292-297.) New Brunswick shell deposits treated on 
pp. 292-295. 
X Letter from U. S. National Museum, February 6, 1900. 
§ Bulletin of this Society, X., 1892, pp. 6-29. 
