Fig. 338. (S. 1–2.)
Problematical forms in stone. Localities: Ohio, Massachusetts, Arkansas. Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, collection.
“Wisconsin has produced a large number of specimens of banner-stones, many of which are of exceptional beauty of material and workmanship. Unfinished specimens are occasionally found. Portions of broken specimens (the wings) were sometimes perforated for use as gorgets or pendants. In the manufacture of local banner-stones slate, syenite, granite, rhyolite, quartz, and other rocks were employed. The range of form is quite wide and includes many of the types described from Ohio and other states. A few forms and varieties from other regions, not yet described, occur here. The following notes are based upon our present knowledge of their forms and distribution:—
1. Tablet or rectangular form. Fairly common and widely distributed in southern Wisconsin. Specimens have been recovered in Kenosha, Dane, Monroe, La Crosse, Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Waupaca, and Outagamie counties. 2. Square form. Specimens of this form are equally as common as the preceding. Examples have been collected in Washington, Waukesha, Dodge, Jefferson, Dane, Sauk, Grant, Sheboygan, and Winnebago counties. 3. Reel-shaped form. The only known specimens have come from Green Lake and Outagamie counties.
Fig. 339. (S. 1–5.) Problematical form. Material: greenish slate. Collection of H. K. Deisher, Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
Fig. 340. (S. about 3–10.) Problematical form of cannel coal. This was found in Mercer County, Ohio, in a gravel-pit. It was on the breast of a skeleton. Phillips Academy collection.
Fig. 341. (S. 1–2.) Unfinished winged object. From the collection of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Newark, New Jersey. New Jersey type of winged stone is interesting in that the wings are graceful and sloping, usually narrow, and often angular. Compare Figs. 317, 341, and 342. It will be observed that although there is varying weight and width in the wings, yet the three specimens present certain characteristics in common.