Tobacco was introduced to Africa in the sixteenth century. Both men and women smoked pipes privately, but taking snuff was a festive public affair. Tobacco was ground finely in mortars and used as snuff or chewed. It was given as an offering to ancest... These two wood tobacco mortars are sculpted with crouching human figures. Tobacco, introduced to Africa in the sixteenth century, was ground in mortars to be taken as snuff or chewed. It was given as an offering to ancestors or as a gift to visitors an...