I've see this frequently growing throughout the Pacific NW and use to dry it to mix with my pipe tobacco - it adds a tangy spicy taste and distinctive arroma. What do you supposed the mountain men smoked and what kind of pipes did they carry?
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I've see this frequently growing throughout the Pacific NW and use to dry it to mix with my pipe tobacco - it adds a tangy spicy taste and distinctive arroma. What do you supposed the mountain men smoked and what kind of pipes did they carry?
Looks like wintergreen to me. Does it get red berries?
Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens L.
Figure 121.
Gaultheria procumbens L.
Figure 121.
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The leaves are thick and stiff - almost like a succulent. They grow very close to the ground and spread like a vine - yes they do have red and green berrys at times.
The leaves are thick and stiff - almost like a succulent. They grow very close to the ground and spread like a vine - yes they do have red and green berrys at times.
More wintergreen. Boy, except for the thickness of the leaves. I munch on this stuff, make tea of the leaves, and the berries are delicious (when you can beat the chipmunks and red squirrels to them.
Pretty close . . . but no cigar! HAHAHAHAHA! I crack me up.
If they're not related they certainly hold the same niche in the veggie world.
Pretty close . . . but no cigar! HAHAHAHAHA! I crack me up.
If they're not related they certainly hold the same niche in the veggie world.
"An Algonquian term originally applied to a mixture of bearberry leaves and tobacco. Because of the early scarcity of tobacco, or because he liked the mixture, the Indian rarely smoked pure tobacco. The name actually came from the Cree and Chippewa dialects and meant "what is mixed." The term later covered mixtures of Indian tobacco and leaves of the sumac, laurel, mansanita, squaw bush, and the inner barks of the red willow, dogwood, cherry, arrowwood, poplar, birch, etc"
"No rite was more widely practiced by indians than smoking.when an indian lit a mixture of tobacco and various aromatic herbs - called kinnikinnick - in the stone bowl of his pipe his intent was often deeply serious. The smoke that he exhaled was seen as a breath of prayer, and the pipe itself was regarded as an intimate channel of communication to the spirit world. Pipes were also used to sanctify communication between men. An early fur trapper named Alexander Ross noted that pipe smoking was "the introductory step to all important affairs, and no business can be entered upon with these people before the ceremony of smoking is over."
Ceremonial pipes were the personal property of a chief, medicine man or warrior. They were smoked according to a grave and precise ritual to pledge an oath or ratify a treaty, which inspired the white man's phrase "peace pipe."
The pipes were also used as passports while traveling and for conciliation in even the most private disputes. If a brave ran off with someone else's wife, etiquette decreed that he send an old man to the husband bearing a pipe. If the husband smoked the offering, it meant that he would not take revenge on the lovers. Many men owned an unadorned everyday pipe, because smoking was also a casual habit. But the older men sometimes felt obligated to warn the young warriors against excessive smoking: it could cut their wind and thus reduce their stamina in battle."
"No rite was more widely practiced by indians than smoking.when an indian lit a mixture of tobacco and various aromatic herbs - called kinnikinnick - in the stone bowl of his pipe his intent was often deeply serious. The smoke that he exhaled was seen as a breath of prayer, and the pipe itself was regarded as an intimate channel of communication to the spirit world. Pipes were also used to sanctify communication between men. An early fur trapper named Alexander Ross noted that pipe smoking was "the introductory step to all important affairs, and no business can be entered upon with these people before the ceremony of smoking is over."
Ceremonial pipes were the personal property of a chief, medicine man or warrior. They were smoked according to a grave and precise ritual to pledge an oath or ratify a treaty, which inspired the white man's phrase "peace pipe."
The pipes were also used as passports while traveling and for conciliation in even the most private disputes. If a brave ran off with someone else's wife, etiquette decreed that he send an old man to the husband bearing a pipe. If the husband smoked the offering, it meant that he would not take revenge on the lovers. Many men owned an unadorned everyday pipe, because smoking was also a casual habit. But the older men sometimes felt obligated to warn the young warriors against excessive smoking: it could cut their wind and thus reduce their stamina in battle."
The peace pipe was often called a "calumet," a Norman-French work coined by the first French traders. The calumet was used throughout the Great Plains and eastern woodlands.
It had many purposes. By smoking tobacco in it, a white traveler was guarantee d safe conduct; by carrying one
(each had a unique decorations), a calumet became a means of
identification. Peace pipes were employed to ratify a variety of agreements, political as well as commercial. They were also used in conjunction with the rain dance, and in the blessing of crops.
Shown here is General Winfield Scott Hancock, second from the right, smoking a peace pipe with an Arapaho chief in 1867.
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I've see this frequently growing throughout the Pacific NW and use to dry it to mix with my pipe tobacco - it adds a tangy spicy taste and distinctive arroma. What do you supposed the mountain men smoked and what kind of pipes did they carry?
Many a clay pipe or bowl has turned up in archeological digs on Native American sites. These were trade goods from England, and have been found listed in ship's manifests. The bowls were fitted with wooden or reed stems. These pipes and bowls were made from clay slip and formed in molds, then fired in kilns.
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