Brown—Wisconsin s Quartzite Implements. 659 
ample in the Schuette cabinet at Manitowoc, found in that 
city, is pointed at the extremities, 8% inches in length and 
2% inches in breadth at its middle. 
Long, slender blades with straight or rounded, or more 
rarely indented, bases, occur in various Wisconsin cabinets. 
Some of these are remarkable examples of the aboriginal 
stone-worker’s art. One of these, in the Laurer collection, is 
8% inches in length and less than % inch in width at its 
middle. It comes from Monroe county. An example from 
"Waupaca, in the Benedict- collection, is 8% inches in length. 
What is perhaps the finest quartzite ceremonial as yet ob¬ 
tained in Wisconsin (Plate XXXVII, Fig. 2) is in the Elkey 
collection in the Logan museum at Beloit. Both extremities 
of this piece are nearly square, the sides curving gradually 
to meet them. It is 8% inches in length, less than 2 inches 
in width at the squared ends, and 3 inches in width at the 
middle. It is finely chipped, semi-transparent at the edges, 
and of a grayish color, clouded at one extremity with orange. 
It comes from Dykesville, Kewaunee county. 
A specimen from Brookfield, Waukesha county, of opaque, 
grayish-white quartzite, formerly in the W. II. Ellsworth col¬ 
lection, was diamond-shaped in outline. It measured 6% 
inches in length and 1% inches in width at the middle. A 
knife of whitish quartzite (Plate XXXVII, Eig. 1), 7% 
inches in length, comes from Clifton, Monroe county. One 
edge of this specimen is nearly straight, the other broadly 
curved. It measures nearly 3 inches across its middle. Speci¬ 
mens similar in outline have been obtained from other locali¬ 
ties. Rarely there is seen, among the smaller of these stem¬ 
less quartzites, a style of point from either side of the sur¬ 
face of which, from the base upward, a long narrow flake has 
been struck, presumably to allow of the better attachment of 
a wooden shaft or haft. 
From the banks of the Wisconsin river near Richland City 
•was obtained a large semi-circular knife or scraper. This im¬ 
plement measures nearly 4% inches across its straight edge. 
Quartzite discs are of infrequent occurrence in collections.. 
One of these, of ochre-colored quartzite, measuring nearly 
