Stone Art / Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 47-178.

by Gerard Fowke

B. The reel-shape banner stones are somewhat variable, but are fairly illustrated in [figure 139], representing a specimen of argillite from Sevier county, Tennessee.

A related form has the middle cut from one end, leaving two horn-like projections extending parallel with the hole. An example of this form, shown in [figure 140], is of banded slate, from a mound in Kanawha valley, West Virginia.

Fig. 139.—Banner stone, reel-shape.

Fig. 140.—Banner stone, with horn-like projections.

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

Fig. 142.—Banner stone, crescent-shape