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TYPES OF HANNER STONES. 



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stone, from Jefferson county, Tenne.s,see). The last form is sometimes 

 called a perforated ax, but the material and fragile make exclude it 

 from every class except the ceremonial stones. 



/). The "butterfly" gorgets are so named from their resemblance to 

 a butterfly with expanded wmg.s. The side.s or wings are usually quite 

 thin, either semicircular or 

 like a spherical triangle in 

 outline. The perforated mid- 

 rib IS shorter than the wings 

 and carefully worked. A 



Fm. 143.— Banner stone, crescent-shape. FlQ. 144.— Buttertly banner stone. 



good example, shown in figure 144, is of ferruginous quartz from 

 Monongahela, Pennsylvania, and that illustrated in Ugure 145 is of 

 banded slate from Kanawha valley. There is also one of the latter 

 material from Lewis county, ^^s^^S^^^^^^st^ rfi 



Kentucky. \ ^^^^mW w 



Fig. 145.— Butterfly banner stone. Fio. 146.— Banner atone. 



An aberrant form is elliptical in section at the middle, round or nearly 

 so at the ends, the sides expanding rapidly from end to middle by 



