4. The hole is usually so placed that the handle would not be at right angles to the shell as would be the case with a war club.
5. The perforation is frequently too small to admit a handle of sufficient size to deliver a heavy blow without danger of breaking.
Moreover, Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing, who has recently explored certain shell deposits of the southwestern coast of Florida, and who was fortunate enough to find a number of these implements with handles in place, informs us that in his opinion our position in this matter is the correct one.
These perforated Fulgurs were probably in use as picks, hoes, chisels, and the like.
With a skeleton were three gouges of shell, and a similar implement was found loose in the sand.
A drinking cup of shell (Fulgur perversum) lay loose in the sand.
Two shell pins were met with separately, and so far as could be determined, unassociated, though, in our opinion, they must have rolled from the neighborhood of some skeleton.
Three feet from the surface, with human remains and a bone implement, was a marine shell (Murex spinicostata).[12]
MISCELLANEOUS
A bone piercing implement, with a length of 6.5 inches, closely resembling the one to which reference has been made, was taken from a different portion of the mound.