The classic two volume  work by George A. West on tobacco use of  the American Indian. West drew upon museum as well as private collections of pipes to produce a most comprehensive work on the subject.  Volume 1 contains the history of tobacco use, types of tobacco used  and the pipe classification system. Volume 2 features 257 plates of thousands of  prehistoric and historic pipes from across North America along with their descriptions and provenance. 

West references many existing publications including: Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines by McGuire and Exploration of Tremper Mound by Mills both of these reprints are available from this site.

West on tobacco

"Although the statement has been controverted, there remains but little doubt that the knowledge of tobacco and its uses reached the remainder of the world from America. At the landing of Columbus, in 1492, the use of this herb, by the natives encountered, was a revelation to him and his sailors. At that time no one anticipated that, within a century or two, its fame and popularity would encircle the globe and become of tremendous commercial importance.   Tobacco has withstood the vicissitudes of time, the antagonisms of powerful rulers, extravagant exaggerations as to its virtues, and condemnation as "a pestiferous and wicked poison from the devil",1 yet it has more friends today than any other plant product known to humankind.   It is the author's purpose to, in the following pages, trace the history of tobacco, the development and spread of its use throughout the world, and to review briefly its commercial importance at the present time. Particularly is it his desire to review the prehistory and the early history of the devices employed in smoking by various races and in various parts of the globe. The most important of these devices is obviously the pipe, not only on account of the fact that it was the instrument most used and most highly developed, but because it was made by prehistoric as well as by historic races of relatively indestructible materials, such as stone and pottery. Obviously therefore these implements have been preserved literally "down through the ages" and in them we have a concrete record of one of the highly important cultural factors in primitive America, and this includes the religious and ceremonial aspects of a great variety of cultures, as these developed under varying environmental conditions." This 6-1/2" x 9-1/2", 995 page, soft cover, facsimile reprint two part set  is illustrated with 257 full-page plates, 17 text figures and 19 maps of pipe distributions.  $54.95