DCHP-1 Online

Indian leaf Obs.

• a smoking mixture varying as to ingredients from tribe to tribe and place to place, but including bearberry or sumac leaves, the inner bark of red-osier dogwood, and, often, tobacco.

  See also: kinnikinik (def. 1)  red-osier dogwood  

  • 1855  (1956)  He then puffs the Indian leaf in curling clouds.