NO. 10 NEBRASKA ARCHEOLOGY STRONG I3I 



possibly to the different clays employed. No examples of a true slip 

 were noticed, though four sherds had a whitish coating on their inner 

 surface suggesting a lime wash. Although this wash did not rub off, 

 it did not appear to have been burned into the pot. As the above list 

 indicates, 62 percent of the sherds recovered were of plain ware which 

 is well polished and often lustrous. Cord-marked sherds made up 

 less than 38 percent of the total, and in most of these the cord marks 

 had been largely eradicated by subsequent polishing. The markings 

 had apparently been applied with cord-wrapped paddles and were 

 mostly on the body of the vessels, only 7 out of 78 rims from the 

 house showing such marks.'" 



Incising as a means of decoration occurs in a relatively small pro- 

 portion of pieces from this site. In cache 2 there were 13 small sherds 

 of a thin, well-polished brown ware having incised lines on their outer 

 surface. The lines, which had been applied with a pointed implement 

 while the pot was soft, were fine and shallow. Parallel lines and 

 angles are suggested, but the sherds are too small to indicate the larger 

 patterns of which they were a part. 



Aside from polishing, cord marking, incising, and the rare painting 

 with a white wash, the main decorative elements of this pottery are 

 attained by modeling. Modeling occurs commonly on rims, lugs, and 

 handles, but only rarely on the body of the pots. Therefore an analysis 

 of all the rim sherds from house i will complete the general discussion 

 of ceramic decoration at this site (see table 6, p. 253). 



In regard to modeling, the occurrence of a small separate loop 

 handle (pi. 16, fig. i, e) is notable. This had evidently been made 

 separately for insertion into an otherwise completed pot. In all com- 

 plete pots from house 2, as well as rim sherds having loop handles, the 

 handle appears to form part of the original pot. However the occur- 

 rence of an individual loop handle indicates that the riveting in of 

 separate handles also occurred.'^ A fragment of a small pot rim having 

 a human hand in relief (pi. 16, fig. i, d) and a small crude bird effigy 

 (pi. 16, fig. I, c) apparently broken from the rim of a pot are also 

 examples of modeling. 



"According to Sterns (1915 a, II, p. 243) nearly all the sherds he recovered 

 from sites of this type were marked with straw-wrapped paddles, often almost 

 eradicated by subsequent smoothing. Examination of Sterns's pottery shows the 

 markings to be similar to those here designated as cord markings. Although 

 many of the marked sherds from house 2 show definite cord imprints, straw- 

 wrapped paddles may have been used on others. 



'^ Practiced by the Hopi today and by the Post Basket Makers in the San Juan. 

 Morris, 1927, p. 140. Webb, 1928, p. 279, figures a somewhat similar handle 

 from Kentucky. 



