They are certainly not ivy and don't look like grape leaves although I would
guess there are variations on these I would not recognize. What they do look
like, very much so, are tobacco leaves (something we see a lot of in North
Carolina and therefore pretty easy to spot). I will try to get a photo of our
best example but, as you probably know, these things are tough to get a good
picture of.

Maureen Basedow
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Program
UNC-Wilmington

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>Are you sure that they are not Grape leaves or Ivy leaves, both with stems.
>Those are the two most common motifs.  Why do you think they are tobacco
>leaves???
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>Smoke.
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>I have several pipestems from an eastern North Carolina plantation site
>(18th
>- 20th cent.) decorated with a double frieze of tobacco leaves. Any
>parallels?
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>Maureen Basedow
>Assistant Professor
>Anthropology Program
>UNC-Wilmington