DCHP-3

negrohead tobacco†

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a slender, twisted plug of tobacco once common in the old Northwest.

Quotations

1889
The Hudson's Bay negrohead tobacco is in my opinion much improved, as well as economized by a mixture with either of these substances (kinikinik or the inner bark of red willow).
1896
A laborer's ration is four fresh fish a day, or four pounds of half-dry, or three pounds of dried caribou meat; one and one-half pounds of tea, and two pounds of negro-head tobacco each month; forty pounds of white pressed sugar, and one hundred pounds of flour each year.