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the Pacific coast, is of peculiar interest. There has been no oi)por- 

 tunity for investigating the possible use of the high drone by Cali- 

 fornia tribes. 



After leaving Neah Bay Miss Densmore went to Prince Rupert, 

 B. C, where she interviewed some memljers of the Tsimshian tril>e 

 and learned that their old songs are remembered by at least one mem- 

 ber of the tribe. No attempt was made to record songs in British 

 Columbia, but there seems an important opportunity for musical work- 

 in that re'ion. 



Fig. 123. — Unfinished l)anner stones, showing different stages of workman- 

 ship on various types found in eastern Pen.nsylvania. 



BANNERSTONE INVESTIGATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA 



John L. Bacr, special archeologist for the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, spent three months in eastern Pennsylvania studying ban- 

 nerstones and the method of their manufacture. Four more aborigi- 

 nal workshops, where bannerstones were made, were located ; two 

 along the Susquehanna and two along the Delaware. None of these, 

 however, was as large as the one formerly reported on Alt. Johnson 

 Island in the Susquehanna River. At each of these workshops the 

 bannerstones were made either after dififerent patterns or of a 



