Smoking and tobacco pipes in New Guinea

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Abstract
The smoking of tobacco was recorded for various parts of New Guinea when those areas were first visited by Europeans. Travellers have expressed different opinions with regard to the presence of a native species of tobacco and whether tobacco smoking was an aboriginal custom, or had been introduced comparatively recently by Malays or other foreigners. There has been so much uncertainty about these and other aspects of tobacco smoking in New Guinea that it seemed worth while to study them more minutely, especially as they bear upon ethnological problems, such as the diffusion of culture, independence of invention, styles of decorative art, and other matters of theoretical interest.

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