Use of Tobacco in Mexico and South AmericaField Museum of Natural History, 1924 - 15 pages |
Expressions et termes fréquents
aboriginal America ALDEN MASON Andean highlands ANTHROPOLOGY LEAFLET apparently Argentina ARHUACO INDIANS Aztec beak Benzoni bones bowl BRAZIL chewing the coca cigar cigarette coca leaves coca-chewing cocaine COLUMBIA Columbus contact with tobacco corn-husk or bark crushed tobacco leaves Cuba customs of smoking decoction decorated with incised dried elbow favorite method FIELD MUSEUM frequently gourd containing Gran Chaco habit herb hollow intoxicated Japanese leaf LEAFLET 16 leaves rolled licking Lighting one end LIME GOURDS liquidambar means of pitch medicinal plant Mexican pipes MEXICAN POTTERY PIPES Mexico and South modern clay MORTAR AND PESTLE mouth MUSEUM OF NATURAL native NATURAL HISTORY CHICAGO nose nostrils NUMBER ornate PARAGUAY pastime Pawnee Peru pipe of pre-Columbian PLATE pottery or stone powder practise pulverized receive the smoke reed region religious ceremonials snuff snuff-holder snuffing stem tabaco taking tobacco to-day Tobacco in Mexico tobacco was employed tribes tube tubular pipes Valley of Mexico Venezuela West Indies wrapper
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Page 33 - Council, tho' there be 2 or 300 of them. Then they, sitting in their usual Posture upon Forms, make, with their Hands held hollow together, a kind of Funnel round their Mouths and Noses. Into this they receive the Smoak as 'tis blown upon them, snuffing it up greedily and strongly as long as ever they are able to hold their Breath, and seeming to bless themselves, as it were, with the Refreshment it gives them.
Page 33 - Smoaking when they are in Company together is thus: A Boy lights one end of a Roll and burns it to a Coal, wetting the part next it to keep it from wasting too fast.
Page 33 - tis dried and cured they strip it from the Stalks; and laying two or three Leaves upon one another, they roll up all together side-ways into a long Roll, yet leaving a little hollow. Round this they roll other Leaves one after another, in the same manner but close and hard, till the Roll be as big as ones Wrist, and two or three Feet in length.
Page 31 - In La Espanola and the other islands, when their doctors wanted to cure a sick man, they went to the place where they were to administer the smoke, and when he was thoroughly intoxicated by it, the cure was mostly effected. On returning to his senses, he told a thousand stories of his having been at the council of the gods, and other high visions.
Page 33 - ... together sideways into a long roll, yet leaving a little hollow. Round this they roll other leaves one after another, in the same manner but close and hard, till the roll is as big as one's wrist, and two or three feet in length.
Page 35 - Tabasco, in Mexico. The Mexicans used it copiously, not only in smoke in the mouth, but also in snuff at the nose.
Page 33 - ... do they fill themselves with this cruel smoke, that they lose their reason. And there are some who take so much of it, that they fall down as if they were dead, and remain the greater part of the day or night stupefied.
Page 33 - ... thus: a Boy lights one end of a Roll and burns it to a Coal, wetting the part next it to keep it from wasting too fast. The End so lighted he puts into his Mouth, and blows the Smoak through the whole length of the Roll into the Face of every one of the Company or Council, tho
Page 41 - See what a pestiferous and wicked poison from the devil this must be. It has happened to me several times that, going through the provinces of Guatemala and Nicaragua, I have entered the house of an Indian who had taken this herb, which in the Mexican language is called tobacco, and immediately perceiving the sharp fetid smell of this truly diabolical and stinking smoke, I was obliged to go away in haste, and seek some other place.
Page 35 - In order to smoke it, they put the leaves with the gum of liquid amber, and other hot and odorous herbs, into a little pipe of wood or reed, or some other more valuable substance. They received the smoke by sucking the pipe and shutting the nostrils with their fingers, so that it might pass by the breath more easily towards the lungs.