WISCONSIN’S QUARTZITE IMPLEMENTS. 
CHARLES E. BROWN. 
(With Plates XXXVI and XXXVII). 
Not the least interesting of Wisconsin’s prehistoric imple¬ 
ments are her quartzites, and it is therefore strange that in 
her archaeological literature they should have been so utterly 
neglected. It is because the author believes them worthy of 
greater attention on the part of local students that this modest 
contribution is offered. 
On the subject of Wisconsin’s rich store of native copper 
implements and ornaments, their authorship, manufacture and 
functions, volumes of matter good, bad and indifferent have 
been written, and largely, perhaps, in consequence of the great 
interest in these, the study of other classes of aboriginal arti¬ 
facts, none the less interesting and worthy of investigation, and 
some of them peculiar to this region, has been retarded. 
This, however, is not altogether unfortunate, since it leaves 
to the student of the present day, when careful and painstak¬ 
ing research conducted according to enlightened and scientific 
methods is becoming the rule, an opportunity to solve, unham¬ 
pered by previously constructed and illy substantiated theories, 
the problems of their origin, purpose, workmanship and dis¬ 
tribution. 
Wisconsin’s quartzite implements are certainly worthy of at¬ 
tention. Examples are to be seen today in every one of sev¬ 
eral hundred local, public and private cabinets.. The E. M. 
Benedict, H. P. Hamilton, the Logan museum, and others of 
the larger Wisconsin collections, are already rich in specimens 
of this material, the Benedict and Logan museum collections 
