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B. The reel-shape banner stones are somewhat variable, but are fairly 

 illustrated in figure 139, representing a specimen of argillite from Sevier 

 couiitj^ Tennessee. 



A related form has the middle cut out^ 

 from one end, leaving two horn-like pro- 

 jections extending parallel with the hole. 

 An example of this form, shown 

 in figure 140, is of banded slate, 

 from a mound in Kanawha val- 

 ifl ley. West Virginia. 



Fio. 13<J.— 

 Banner 

 stone, reel- 

 ahape. 



Fig. 14C. — Banner stone, 



with hornlike 



prqiections. 



Fig. 141. — Banner Btone, crescent-shape. 



C The crescentic banner stones might better be termed " semihmar," 

 since most of them are flat at one end and curved at the other. Occ;i sion- 



ally one has both ends 

 curved and pai'allel, 

 the sides also slightly 

 curved, making the 

 article reniform. 

 Others have the ends 

 straight and parallel, 

 with the sides curved 

 or like the zone of a 

 circle. Two iiave a 

 midrib for the hole, 

 with the sides dressed 



Fig. 142.— Banner stone, crescentahape. doWU QUite thill, 38 



with the butterfly gorgets. All were finished in form before the drill. 

 ing was done, though some had not received their final polish. The 

 type is illustrated in figures 141 (steatite, from northwestern North 

 Carolina). 142 (pagodite, from Rhea county, Tennessee), and 143 (sand- 



