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WindPipe
Actually, WindPipe is also correct.
You see, what we call HairPipe was also called WindPipe in the very early years of trade. Contrary to popular belief, we did not create what one sees as today's HairPipe.
We did make elongated beads/pipes long before the Europeans came to our shores. These beads/pipes were made from bone, shell, wood, stone, and clay. The bead/pipes were used for various things: If only as a bead they were often worn in the hair. If as a pipe they were used for mostly medicinal purposes of blowing the smoke in a concentrated stream on the afflicted person or afflicted area. They could be used as both.
When the Europeans arrived they gave these elongated beads/pipes two names in English: WindPipe and HairPipe.
Over time the Europeans noticed that the Natives greatly valued the stems of corncob pipes which were made of bone. The Natives like the consistency in shape and size of these stems for use as beads, etc. You see before this time making these beads was a very long and complicated process for the Natives and getting even consistency from bead to bead for a large amount of beads was hard and very time consuming.
It did not take much time for the Europeans to develop and perfect a way of mass producing these pipes in bone for the Fur Trade.
As time went on the term "WindPipe" lost favor for the description of these beads.
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