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KIDDER. (Pages 407-462. Plates XIV-XXVIII.) Price 85 cents. American Anthropologist VOL. 23 NEW SERIES OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1921 No. 4 A ABORIGINAL TOBACCOS BY WILLIAM ALBERT SETCHELL CCORDING to De Candolle in his Origin of Cultivated Plants,1 somewhat over forty of the plants now generally cultivated came from the Americas, some of them having been introduced into Europe very soon after the discovery of the "new continent" by Columbus. This has been regarded as being true particularly of maize, potatoes, and tobacco. There have not been wanting claims as to other origins for many of these supposedly American cultivated plants and the tobaccos have frequently been under suspicion. The most careful investigations, however, have tended only to confirm the idea of the non-existence of any species of tobacco used for smoking, snuffing, or chewing outside the confines of the American continents. The latest writer to claim a non-American origin for tobacco, as well as certain other cultivated plants of supposedly American origin, is Leo Wiener. Professor Wiener devotes ninety pages of his book to a consideration of tobacco, chiefly from the point of view of its various names. His conclusions appear to be that the cultivated tobacco originated in Africa and was introduced thence into the Americas by Negro slaves imported by the Spaniards. The linguistic evidence brought forward by Professor Wiener seems to one unacquainted with the value of such evidence as to origins and migrations of peoples, plants, etc., to be far-fetched and 1 Origin of Cultivated Plants, in Internat. Sci. Series, vol. 48, New York, 1885. 2 Africa and the Discovery of America, vol. 1, Philadelphia, 1920. |