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???

Smoke.


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Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
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Russellville, Arkansas 72801
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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?

Maureen Basedow
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Program
UNC-Wilmington