Broivn — Wisconsin’s Quartzite Implements. 657 
perhaps particularly so. The late F. S. Perkins of Burling¬ 
ton is known to have taken a great interest in them and to have 
possessed in the several collections assembled during his life¬ 
time many fine examples. 
The great beauty of many of these aboriginal artifacts must 
be seen to be appreciated. Xo description or ordinary illus¬ 
tration can convey an adequate conception of the beauty of the 
material or of the artistic excellence of the workmanship of 
many of them. What agate and obsidian implements are to 
the West, our quartzites are to Wisconsin. We have thus 
perhaps but little reason to covet the idols of our neighbors. 
The range of color is broad, from white to dark bluish gray, 
from light through various shades of brown to a rich orange, 
and from pinkish to a bright carmine. Those of a light brown¬ 
ish color, the “maple sugar” color of some collectors, are per¬ 
haps the most common and widely distributed. A small num¬ 
ber are of chocolate brown, brick red, dark purplish or inter¬ 
mediate shades of color. Xot infrequently one implement ex¬ 
hibits several shades of color in the shape of bands or clouds. 
Like other stone implements, they present all grades of work¬ 
manship and finish. Some, perhaps the majority, are of or¬ 
dinary workmanship, while others are finely or exquisitely 
chipped, and occasionally are found specimens whose surfaces 
have been smoothed and the traces of the ancient Hint chipper’s 
art thus wholly or partly obliterated. 
THE IMPLEMENTS. 
Among the very large number of specimens examined by the 
author in various Wisconsin collections, arrow and spear points 
and knives far outnumber all other classes of quartzite imple¬ 
ments. The number of quartzite drills and scrapers which 
have come to his notice is comparatively small. Among the 
arrow and spear points, the variety of form appears to be al¬ 
most, if not quite, as great as among the flint implements, not 
a few of even the more graceful types being successfully imi¬ 
tated in this refractory material. Several of the forms re¬ 
ferred to below are figured in Plate XXXVI. 
