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My Collection, For Exhibit ONLY Not For SALE

 

BANNERSTONES

My Favorite Relics are The Mysterious Banner Stones, I Question The Often Professed Explanation of Usage, That  Banner Stones Were ATLATL or Spear Thrower Weights. I Agree, Some Were But Are Misclassified as Banner Stones When They Are Weights. 

I Believe Many Different Relics Identified as Banner Stones Are Just Misidentified and Grouped Together Due To Similarities. Some Are Very Fragile in Nature and Took Possibly Months to Create, Native Man Would Not Waist His Energy Making Something That Was Too Fragile For Hunting, No I Truly Believe they Were Designed as Symbols of Different Clans, Power or Prestige, Truly BANNER STONES!

Here are a Couple of My Bannerstones, I will be Adding More Soon

LEFT:

QUARTZ Pick Banner Stone, Hawking Co. Ohio

3-3/4" Long X 1-9/16" High X 1-1/2" Widest Dia.
Hole is Slightly Tapered 15/32" - 31/64"
Small Area of OLD Restoration Near Hole on One Side.

 

Below:

Large Shuttle Banner, Medina Co. Ohio.
5-1/4" Long X 2-1/2" High and 1-1/16" Thick
Midsection Across The Hole.
The Hole is Tapered 1/2" - 7/16".
Well Worked Smooth Only Some Light Pecking
 Marks Remain. Nicely Uniform and Good Balance .
Great Patina!

 

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