Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 141.—Banner stone, crescent-shape. ft The crescentic banner stones might better be termed semilunar,since most of them are flat at one end and curved at the other. Occasion-ally one has both endscurved and parallel,the sides also slightlycurved, making them a r t i c 1 e r e n i f o r in. ? Others have the ends ? straight and parallel, ? with the sides curved or like the zone of a circle. Two have amidrib for the hole,with the sides dressed Fig. 142.—Banner stone, crescent-shape. down quite thill
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 141.—Banner stone, crescent-shape. ft The crescentic banner stones might better be termed semilunar,since most of them are flat at one end and curved at the other. Occasion-ally one has both endscurved and parallel,the sides also slightlycurved, making them a r t i c 1 e r e n i f o r in. ? Others have the ends ? straight and parallel, ? with the sides curved or like the zone of a circle. Two have amidrib for the hole,with the sides dressed Fig. 142.—Banner stone, crescent-shape. down quite thill, 3S with the butterfly gorgets. All were finished in form before the drill,ing was done, though some had not received their final polish. Thetype is illustrated in figures 141 (steatite, from northwestern NorthCarolina). 142 (pagodite, from Rhea county, Tennessee), and 143 (sand-. I FOWKE] TYPES OF BANNER STONES. 123 stone, from Jefferson county, Tennessee). The last form is sometimescalled a perforated ax, but the material and fragile make exclude itfrom every class except the ceremonial stones. District. ?S 6*^ a 55 op S asU O1 3 1 ?3 oso H 12 1 i Montgomery county, North Carolina 2 l 2 D. The butterfly gorgets are so named from their resemblance toa butterfly with expanded wmgs. The sides or wings are usually quitethin, either semicircular orlike a spherical triangle inoutline. The perforated mid-rib is shorter than the wingsand carefully worked. A
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