Red Willow

Over the same fire is hung a jack rabbit, skinned, and spitted upon a slender red-willow stick, and from a tree near by the baby swings in his red-willow cradle. ❋ Various (N/A)

While the squaws are building the wick-i-ups the Indian has been stretched on the ground, smoking his long-stemmed pipe, with its stone or iron bowl, or else he has been kneeling beside the fire preparing his much-loved red-willow tobacco. ❋ Various (N/A)

So fond are the Indians of their red-willow tobacco that they prefer it to the real unmixed article, which seems to be too strong for them. ❋ Various (N/A)

And to these same red-willow thickets the Indians go in winter in search of deer or antelope, which are pretty sure to be found browsing among them. ❋ Various (N/A)

With that he went to smoking his red-willow [1] bark again. ❋ Daniel Carter Beard (1895)

Apart, stolid and silent, but interested spectators, lounged the dusky redmen, forever sucking at their _pwoighun-ahsin_ (stone pipes) and making tobacco from the inner bark of red-willow wands, watching and wondering. ❋ Walter R. Nursey (1887)

They make it o 'the dried leaves o' the shumack and the inner bark o 'the red-willow, chopped very small an' mixed together. ❋ Unknown (1859)