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the Pacific coast, is of peculiar interest. There has heen no oppor- 

 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 members of the Tsimshian tribe 

 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 region. 



Fig. 123. — Unfinished banner stones, showing different stages of workman- 

 ship on various t\'pes found in eastern Pennsylvania. 



BANNERSTONE INVESTIGATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA 



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

 Ethnology, spent three months in eastern Pennsylvania studying Ijan- 

 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 different patterns or of a 



