. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 170 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM stones. We have not learned, however, of a banner stone and pipe from a grave that would bear out this theory. An interesting specimen in connection with this idea occurs in a highly decorated form of pipe in the New York State Museum collection. The pipe is of European brass. About the bowl of the pipe extending from the neck-base upward is a large crescent- shaped object perhaps intended to be a moon , effigy or more remotely a canoe, though the crescent is too thin to resemble one closely. On one side of the
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 170 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM stones. We have not learned, however, of a banner stone and pipe from a grave that would bear out this theory. An interesting specimen in connection with this idea occurs in a highly decorated form of pipe in the New York State Museum collection. The pipe is of European brass. About the bowl of the pipe extending from the neck-base upward is a large crescent- shaped object perhaps intended to be a moon , effigy or more remotely a canoe, though the crescent is too thin to resemble one closely. On one side of the crescent is a figure of a man with an arm extended and holding a shaft having a weighted- bottom. The pattern has been cut out and riveted on the crescent. In form this adjunct to the pipe somewhat resembles a banner stone, but we do not believe that the maker of this pipe was ever familiar with ban- ner stones or knew of their actual value. This pipe of brass, which. Fig. 2. Mound effigy of native copper. Note the wing-shaped ornament on the head. The people who made these embossed copper drawings used banner stones. Note the object held in the right Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York
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