Cigar Indians & Cigar Blackamoors: The Forgotten Images Europe Recorded Long before modern racial categories existed, European art, chronicles, and museum collections preserved images of dark-skinned Indigenous Americans and Black Moors smoking cigars and ritual pipes. These figures appear in: • Early colonial engravings • Church art and museum sculptures • European depictions labeled “Indians,” “Blackamoors,” “Moors,” and “Ethiopians” Tobacco and cigar culture did not originate with Europeans.