Show pipes from bones amon earliest ways to smoke four thousand years ago when there were no pipes people smoked by squatting around an incense burn ing fire and inhaling the fumes such a procedure invariably made them drunk the clean comforting modern briar has many strange antecedents some of which are still in service amongst remote tribes the shepherds of turkestan Turk estan smote smoke a pipe fashioned from the knucklebone knuckle bone of a lamb from which the marrow has been scooped out and a hole punched in the thicker end for the bowl an accepted authority on smoking utensils once discovered a childs thighbone thigh bone put to a similar i use in china the red indians of nova scotia formerly converted lobster claws into effective pipes while to gratify novelty hunters the eskimos carve elaborate and artistic pipes out of walrus tusks 1 old soldiers may recall the primitive earth pipes built by indians during the war A small hole was dug in the ground and stuffed with tobacco into it a stick was thrust almost horizontally zon tally and the earth pressed firm on top of lt it so that when withdrawn a tiny air tube remained then the smoker having lit his favorite weed applied his lips to the tube er magazine |