394 CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF THE FLORIDA WEST-COAST. 



As we have stated, Mr. Gushing found at Marco these shell tools with handles 

 in place. On some were remains of thongs that bound them. Mr. Cushing men- 

 tions various uses for which these tools have served. 



While a few of the heaviest varieties of these implements may have seen 

 service as war clubs, it is evident that their use was widely diverse. 



Dr. Thomas Wilson of the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., 

 is now engaged upon an investigation of righthandedness and lefthandedness among 

 the aborigines, and to aid him in his research is examining aboriginal implements 

 which may furnish indications bearing upon the question. In furtherance of this 

 we have furnished Doctor Wilson with over seventy implements of the type we 

 have just described, about thirty of which have been retained permanently by the 

 National Museum. The remainder have been sent to the Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, and to the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. The shells 

 figured in this Report with others and with the collections made by us on the west 

 coast of Florida, are at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where 

 may be seen the result of our labors in various southern States. 



INDEX. 



Alafia Kiver, mounds c 



, 356. 



Bird-heads of earthenware, 374. 

 Blue Hill, 376. 

 Bullfrog Creek, 357. 



Canal, aboriginal, 358. 

 Caxirabas Hill, 377. 

 "Celt" of stone, 379. 

 "Celts" of shell, 374, 379. 

 Chisel of stone, 371, 374. 

 Chokoloskee Key, 377. 

 Conclusions, 380. 

 Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 351, 

 363, 364, 367, 369, 380, 393. 



Demorey Key, 363. 

 Disc of limestone, 374. 

 Discs of shell, 369, 374, 379. 

 Dismal Key, 377. 

 Drinking cups of shell, 372. 



Extent of our investigations, 352. 



Fikahatchee Key, 377. 

 Flexed burials, 355, 356, 35S, 

 360, 362. 



Four-mile Bayou, 352. 



Gomez' Old Place, 377. 

 Goodland Point, 371. 



Heart-shaped object of limestone, 



379. 

 Hematite, sand dyed with, 359. 



Implement, unique, of stone, 374. 

 Implements of shell, 380. 

 Indian Hill, 359. 



Josselyn Key, 363. 



Little Manatee River, mound 



near, 358. 

 Little Marco Island, 369. 



Marco, 351, 369. 

 Mill Point, 356. . 

 Modern relics, 359, 362. 

 Mound Island, 366. 



Net "sinkers," 379. 



Ortiz, Juan, 358. 



Pendant, bear's tooth, 379. 

 Pendant, fossil shark's tooth, 363. 

 Pendants, bird-head, 359. 

 Pendants of shell, 369, 372, 379. 

 Piercer of stone, 379. 

 Pine Island, mound on, 362. 

 Pine Key, 355. 

 Point Maximo, 353. 

 Point Pinelos, 355. 



Russell's Key, 377. 



Scoop-shaped object of shell, 374. 

 Shark's tooth, fossil, 359. 

 Shell implements, 380. 

 Silver, pendant of, 362. 

 " Sinker," clam shell, 380. 

 "Sinkers," 371, 374, 379. 

 Spoon-shaped object of shell, 374. 



Turner's River, 379. 



Walker, S. T., his explorations, 



351, 354, 355, 357, 376. 

 Watson's, 380. 

 Wiggin's Key, 377. 



