1. For domestic service. 2. For ornamentation.
Under No. 1 there are the following subdivisions:—
a. Shells used as hoes. (Fig. 520.) b. As club-heads. (None shown.) c. As cups and bowls. (Fig. 522.)
Under No. 2:
a. As small beads, round or cylindrical. (Figs. 521, 521 A.) b. Ear and nose ornaments, circular or oval. (Fig. 523.) c. Hairpins. (Fig. 525.) d. Bracelets and finger-rings. (None shown.) e. Engraved shell gorgets. (Figs. 530 to 535.) f. Pendants and unknown forms. (Figs. 524, 529.) g. Effigies. (Fig. 537.)
Fig. 521 A. (S. 1–2.) Beads from Trigg County, at mouth of Little River, where it enters the Cumberland River, Kentucky. Bennett H. Young’s collection.
The larger shells of the Atlantic Coast between the mouth of the Potomac and the Mississippi were employed by the Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana Indians as digging-tools, heads to clubs, etc.
Mr. Clarence B. Moore, during the course of his extensive explorations in Florida and Alabama, found great quantities of large shells which had been used as domestic tools. It is well known that the shell mounds of Florida equal in size many mounds of earth or stone, farther north.
