File P941 - McGuire, Joseph D.. Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in the U.S. National Museum . Washington (DC): Government Printing Office

Octavo (24.5 cm x 16 cm). Original salmon-coloured printed wrappers, title-page reproduced on front cover, pamphlet-stitched binding. From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1897, pages: 349 - 645 with 5 plates (frontispiece and 4 maps). Profusely illustrated throughout with 239 text figures. Top edge trimmed, others deckled. Chipping to spine ends and fore-edge, 4 cm part at tail of front cover and spine edge, front cover and deckled edges dust soiled, else very good copy, interior bright and clean. Contents include: Mexican and Pueblo tubular pipes; Tubular pipes of the North American Indians generally; Early references to the use of tobacco; Pipe bowls without stems; Heavy animal and bird pipes; Use of pipes and tobacco by the whites; Monitor pipes; Rectangular pipes; Micmac pipes; Disk pipes; Iroquoian pipes; Bird pipes; Calumet and wampum; Mound pipes; Double conoidal pipes; Idol pipes; Great pipes; The calumet dance; Catlinite and Siouan types; Pipes of the Northwest coast; Miscellaneous Pueblo pipes; Delaware types; Indeterminate types; Southern types; Some unique types; Atlantic coast pipes; Southern mound pipes; Summary; and Additional notes.