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BAMOM BANNER STONES 



[b. a. e. 



Bamoa.— Cabeza de Vaca, Rel. (1529), Smith 

 trans., 225, 1S71. Baymoa.— Alegre, Hist. Comp. 

 Jesus, I, 340, 1841. La Concepcion Bamoa,— Orozco 

 y Berra, Geog., 333, 18ti4. 



Bamom ( ' salt water' ). A former Maidu 

 village at the site of the present Shingle, 

 Eldorado co., Cal. (r. b. d.) 



Banamichi. A pueblo of the Teguima 

 Opata and the seat of a Spanish mission 

 in 1639; situated below Arizpe, on the 

 Rio Sonora, Sonora, Mexico; pop. 338 

 in 1678, 127 in 1730. Not to be con- 

 founded with Remedios, q. v. 



Banamiche. — Hrdliclia in Am. Anthrop., VI, 72, 

 1904. Banamichi.— Rivera (1730) quoted by Ban- 

 croft, No. Mex. States, i, .514, 18S4. Banamitzi.— 

 Orozco y Berra, (Jeofr., 343,1864. Nuestra Seiiora 

 de los Remedios de Beramitzi. — Ibid. Remedios 

 Banamichi.— Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th 

 s.. Ill, 372, 1857. 



Band that Don't Cook. A band of Yank- 

 ton Sioux under Smutty Bear (Matcsa- 

 hitchiay). — Culbertson in Smithson. 

 Rep. 1850, 141, 1851. 



Band that Eats no Geese. A band of 

 Yankton Sioux under Padaniapapi. — 

 Culbertson in Smithson.- Rep. 1850, 141, 

 1851. 



Band that Wishes the Life. A band of 

 Yanktonai Sioux of which Black Cattish 

 was the principal chief in 1856. — H. R. 

 Ex. Doc. 130, 34th Cong., 1st sess., 7, 1856. 

 Bankalachi (Yokuts name). A small 

 Shoshonean tribe on upper Deer cr., 

 which drains into Tulare lake, s. Cal. 

 With the Tubatulabal they 

 form one of the four major 

 linguistic divisions of the 

 family. Their own name is 

 unknown, (a. l. k. ) 

 Bo"galaatshi. — Hoffman in Proc. 

 Am. Philos. Soc, xxill, 301, 1886. 

 Banner stones. A name 

 applied to a group of pre- 

 historic objects of polished 

 stone, which, for lack of defi- 

 nite information as to their 

 use, are assigned to the prob- 

 lematical class [sGQ Problem- 

 atical ohjecti^) . Their form is 

 exceedingly varied, but cer- 

 tain fundamental features of 

 their shape are practically 

 unvarying, and are of such a 

 nature as to suggest the use 

 of the term ' ' banner stones ' ' 

 ill ciast-^ifying them. These 

 features are the axial perfo- 

 rations and the extension of 

 the body or midrib into two 

 wing-like projections. Of 

 the various forms the most 

 typical is that which suggests 

 a two-bladed ax, the blades 

 passing on the onehand from thetypeinto 

 pick-like points, and on the other into 

 broad wings, suggesting those of the bird or 

 butterfly. The name "butterfly stones'' 

 is sometimes applied to the latter variety. 

 In some of their features these stones are 



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Sioux Ceremonial 

 WANo, Suggesting 

 Manner of using 

 Banner Stones, 

 (mooney) 



related to pierced tablets, and in others, 

 respectively, to boat stones, bird stones, 

 spade stones, tubes (see articles on these 

 several topics), and plat- 

 form pipes, and there 

 can be little doubt that 

 all of these classes of ob- 

 jects were related to one 

 another in symbolism 

 or use. Nothing is defi- 

 nitely known, however, 

 of the particular signifi- 

 cance attached to them, or of the manner 

 of their use, save by inference from their 

 form and the known customs of the 

 tribes. It appears probable, from the 

 presence of the perforations, that they 



Greenstone; lo 



District of Columbia 

 (i-e) 



were mounted for use on a staff, on a 

 handle as a ceremonial weapon, or on the 

 stem of a calumet, but the appearance of 

 similar winged forms as parts of the head- 



-^' BANDED Slate; Canada; 1-6. (boyle) 



Banded Slate; Ohio 

 (i-e) 



dress in sheet-copper figures from Georgia 

 mounds ( see Copper ) suggests connection 

 with the headdress. 



These objects are usually made of varie- 

 ties of stone selected for their fine 

 grain and pleasing color, and are 

 carefullyshapedand finished. In 

 Florida, and perhaps elsewhere, 

 examples made of shell are found. 

 The perforation is cylindrical, 

 and is bored with great precision ^-Os. 

 longitudinally through the thick '*^5S55> 

 portion or midrib, which may quartzitet 

 symbolically represent the body 'r,"')*"* 

 of a bird. Numerous unfinished 

 specimens are found, some of which, partly 

 bored, show the depressed ring and ele- 

 vated core that result from the use of the 

 tubular drill. They are found in burial 

 mounds and on formerly inhabited sites 

 generally, and were probably as a class 

 the outgrowth of the remarkable culture 

 development which accompanied and 

 resulted in the construction of the great 

 earthworks of the Mississippi valley. 



