The Cheyenne smoking ritual was primarily a social custom with no
political or religious significance-unless the substance smoked was peyote
or the pipe was used to seal a bargain or treaty.  This drawing of the
interior of a Cheyenne tipi shows a man and wife's bed, bow and arrows at
one end, cradle at the other, tobacco board and pipe on the man's side.  A
sharpened bone was used to clean the pipe first.  Then a lump of hard
tobacco was shaved into the pipe, occasionally mixed with wild tobacco
from a pouch, which is shown here hanging on the man's tripod.