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Jersey, on Rancocas creek near Masonville. Here banner stones 

 were actually found in caches associated with the lowest stratum 

 in which artifacts were present. 



Implements Suggesting the Banner Stone 



In connection with our studies of the banner stone as a whorl 

 we have examined the drill spindles of various races in several of 

 the larger museums. We find that the headpiece of a drill spindle 

 employed by the Eskimo, for example, resembles in certain ways 

 the knobbed or blunt ended banner stone of the horned type. The 

 headpieces are rather more neatly made than the remaining por- 

 tion of the drill among the Eskimo. The Eskimo top pieces are 



Fig. 3. Boring set used by the Point Barrow Eskimo. From Report 

 National Museum, 1888, Hough. The top or mouthpiece resembles one 

 form of the banner stone. 



^ A pre-Lenape site in New Jersey. Anthropological Publications, Pennsyl- 

 vania University Museum, vol. 6, no. 3. 



