312 MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION IN FLORIDA. 
CHOKOLOSKEE KEY, LEE COUNTY. 
The interesting Chokoloskee key, described in our previous report, has been 
determined, by a recent survey, to be in Lee county, and not in Monroe county, as 
was formerly believed to be the case. 
A search, extending over a number of days, yielded many fine implements 
wrought from entire shells; also a number of pendants, etc., were obtained from 
persons inhabiting the key. Among 
these was a carefully wrought pendant 
of lime-rock (Fig. 25), presented to us by 
x 93. ЖР errak of lime- Ес. —Pendant of shell. Fic. 25.— Pendant of shell. 
ock. Chokoloskee Key Dick ledio Key. (About Clokoleakes Key. (Full 
inet full size.) full size.) 
Doctor Green, postmaster of Chokoloskee, and two pendants 
of shell, one heart-shaped (Fig. 24), the other showing a 
method of suspension entirely novel in our experience of 
objects of shell (Fig. 25) and unusual in pendants of stone, 
consisting of a perforation, beginning near the end at one side, 
and coming out at the top. Another fine pendant of shell 
from this place is shown in Fig. 26. 
A novel object from this key is an oyster-shell having a 
central perforation and, in addition, a groove at one end, as 
shown in Fig. 27. Presumably a handle, passing through the 
hole, was lashed to the shell at the groove to form a tool. A 
part of the shell, broken from the edge back, lends support to 
this supposition. 
At our former visit to Chokoloskee key we made the 
acquaintance of Mr. С. G. McKinney, then living there. Mr. 
McKinney had for a long period paid close attention to abori- 
26.—Pendant of shell. 
FIG 
Chokoloskee Key. (Full 
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ginal objects found upon the key. We were informed by him that, of the very 
many objects known as “sinkers” found on the key, none had been met with near 
the water, and that he was firmly convinced that these so-called * sinkers" had a 
use other than one pertaining to the taking of fish. 
