From adzes, scoops, spoons, dippers and other tools to personal ornaments such as earrings, anklets, bracelets and beads.
Sections cut from these locations provide the thickest pieces of shell and the largest adzes.
The natural spiral found along the shoulders of the shell serves as a decorative motif.
[2] The oldest known ornaments made from cone shells were found in the early 1960s in the grave of an adult male in Duyong Cave in Palawan.
[3] Manufactured from the hinge line of a giant clam (Tridacna gigas), the shell adze was found associated with a Neolithic burial assemblage in Duyong Cave, Quezon, Palawan.
The presence of shell adzes not only in Palawan but also in Tawi-Tawi is very significant in the study of movements of people from the insular Southeast Asia to the Pacific.
This shell scoop, recovered in Cagraray Island, Albay is not bilaterally symmetrical.
Shell scoops made from the body whorl of Turbo marmoratus first appeared in the Late Neolithic Period at Manunggul Cave, Quezon, Palawan.
At present, the people of Palawan living near Tabon Caves still fashion bracelets from shells.