High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chesapeake pipes, which are also known as colono-pipes, terra-cotta pipes, local pipes, Virginia-made pipes and aboriginal pipes, refer to a type of tobacco pipe that was produced in the Chesapeake Bay region of eastern North America during the seventeenth century. Made out of local clays, the pipes had a distinctive orange or brown colour, with many being decorated with abstract designs and motifs. Such pipes are so common that they have been described as being "ubiquitous in archaeological sites of Virginia and Maryland".