What did the American Indians smoke in their peace pipe ? ?
2. Smoking Pipe Guide A pipe is nothing more than a bowl to hold burning tobacco, and a tube through which the smoke may be drawn into the mouth. But this seemingly simple device is the result of a surprising amount of skill, industry, and science. In a thousand years of smoking pipe, the Indians of North and South America evolved only crude, clumsy pipes fashioned of coarse pottery or stone. The modern pipe, on the other hand, is the creation of European craftsmen, who brought their art to perfection over a period of more than four centuries. The five basic parts of today’s smoking pipe are: (1) the bowl, in which the tobacco is burned; (2) the shank, usually a part of the bowl; (3) the stem, (commonly made of vulcanite, a form of hard rubber) which fits tightly into the shank; (4) the lip, a slight flange on the mouthpiece end of the stem; and (5) the filter, generally of metal, and attached to the stem. When the smoking pipe is assembled, the smoke travels from the bottom of the bow
