4/25/11 Report - Figa & Wet Sand Areas

Figa Found Some Time Ago on a Treasure Coast Beach.A figa (or Higa) is a good luck charm of sorts. They have been used for centuries in this form. I ran across one today in the Florida Museum of Natural History Database that is made of wood instead of ivory and silver like this one. There is one that is more like this one in the Mel Fisher artifact database.I provided the link to the wood one