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stones. We have not learned, however, of a banner stone and pipe 

 from a grave that would bear out this theory. 



An interesting specimen in connection with this idea occurs in a 

 highly decorated form of pipe in the New York State Museum 

 collection. The pipe is of European brass. About the bowl of the 

 pipe extending from the neck-base upward is a large crescent- 

 shaped object perhaps intended to be a moon effigy or more 

 remotely a canoe, though the crescent is too thin to resemble one 

 closely. On one side of the crescent is a figure of a man with an 

 arm extended and holding a shaft having a weighted bottom. The 

 pattern has been cut out and riveted on the crescent. In form this 

 adjunct to the pipe somewhat resembled a banner stone, but we do 

 not believe that the maker of this pipe was ever familiar with ban- 

 ner stones or knew of their actual value. This pipe of brass, which 



Fig. 2. Mound effigy of native copper. Note the wing-shaped ornament 

 on the head. The people who made these embossed copper drawings 

 used banner stones. Note the object held in the right hand. 



