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Title: Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Alaska Historical Library and Museum Kashevaroff, Andrew P., b. 1863 Alaska Historical Association
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Publisher: Juneau, Alaska
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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his bowl until it is full. Asmall fragment of tinder is then light-ed with flint and steel and placed onthe tobacco . The smoker gives two orthree, sharp draws, which thoroughlyignite the tinder and tobacco, and thendraws the smoke into his lungs by along, deep inhalation, which consumesall the tobacco contained in the pipe.After retaining the smoke as long aspossible it is exhaled, and the smokerputs away the pipe. For making snuffthe tobacco is finally shredded, and isthen thoroughly dried, after which itis pounded in a small mortar with awooden pestle until reduced to powder.After being thus treated, it is sifted, toremove the coarser particles, until it isfinally of the fineness required. Forthis purpose they use small sieves. Thesnuff is kept in neatly made boxes, andis used by placing one end of a tube(made from the wing bone of a gooseor other water fowl) successively ineach of the nostrils and inhaling vigor-ously from the snuff-box in which theother end of the tube is placed.
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52 ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM Pipes The tobacco pipes used by the Es-kimo on the mainland and adjacentislands of northern Alaska vary consid-erably in different localities, but ingeneral their remarkable likeness topipes used in China and Japan is note-worthy, and suggests the sourcewhence the patterns were derived. (Dr.E. W. Nelson.) In the collection mostof the pipes are of wood with a mouth-piece of bone or ivory, but specimensfrom St- Lawrence Island are elabor-ately carved from walrus ivory. Nos. 1678 and 1679 are decorated with elab-orate designs. The bowl is of fossilivory. No. 1864 from St. LawrenceIsland, is inlaid with lead and is magni-ficently decorated. No. 275 from MarysIgloo, is a fine specimen of Eskimowork. It is 14 inches long. The cop-per bowl is evidently a candle socketfrom the Russian church candelabra.It has a walrus ivory mouth-piece threeinches long. An iron spatula is attach-ed on sealskin thong, decorated withtwo green beads. The pipe stem wasdrilled from two

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