384 CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF THE FLORIDA WEST-COAST. 



Fig. 32 shows a stout Fulgiir perversum from Chokoloskee Key. It is beauti- 

 fully wrought, the two holes being round x and carefully cut to allow a handle to 

 pass to the right of the columella in a way that would bring the sharp cutting edge 



Fig. 33.— Shell i 



nt. Chokoloskee Key. (Full s 



at the beak at right angles to a handle. The body whorl has been cut several 

 inches back. There is a small rude hole above the periphery of the kind we have 

 referred to. This implement would serve admirably as a gouge. 



1 A part of the axis showing to the left of the farther hole takes away from the circular appear- 

 ance in the reproduction. 



