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gigas, is shown in Fig. 13. Much splintering at each end testifies to the amount 
of service to which this implement has been subjected. It is our belief, strength- 
ened by the result of inquiry, that this shell implement is unique, though similarly 
shaped picks of stone are met with. 
Fra. 13.—Pick-axe of shell. Chokoloskee Key. (Full size.) 
А pendant from the same place is a carefully-made imitation, wrought from 
shell, of a canine tooth of 
alarge carnivore. So well 
executed is this imitation 
that at first glance one 
might well be deceived 
and mistake it for a tooth 
in reality (Fig. 14). 
Also from Chokolos- 
Еа. 14.— Pendant FIG. 15.—Pendant of stone. Fra. 16.— Pendant of Fig, НЕ — Bead of shell. Chokoloskee 
of shell. Cho- Chokoiosk ee Key. (About Pa Chokoloskee Key. (About full size.) 
oloskee Key. full size.) Key. (About full 
(Full size.) ize.) 
kee Key came a pendant of a hard stone from a region to the north of Florida 
(Fig. 15); a pendant of shell (Fig. 16); a well made bead of shell (Fig. 17); an 
ornament of shell with the incised sign of the four directions (Fig. 18). 
A rude effigy of a human head (Fig. 19), carved оп a fragment of pumice 
stone, was picked up on Chokoloskee Key by a thoroughly reliable person long 
known to us, from whom we obtained it. This effigy has every appearance of 
being aboriginal work. 
