Pap. No!'2\Y' TEXARKANA RESERVOIR — JELKS 25 



Remabks: Definition based on very small sample and probably will require 



future revision. 

 BiBLioGBAPHY : None. 



Nash Neck Banded 

 Paste: 



Method of manufacture: Coiled. 



Temper: Clay; approximately 20 percent is shell tempered in collections 

 from northeastern Texas, but the percentage of shell tempering runs 

 much higher in components of the McCurtain Focus in southeastern 

 Oklahoma. 



Texture: Medium hard, usually fairly well fired. 



Color: Surface colors are buffs, light grays, and dark grays. Smudges of 

 carbonized organic matter are frequent, and mottling of the surface due 

 to uneven firing is common. Core colors tend in general to be darker 

 than surface colors, with dark gray and black predominating. 



Surface finish: Interiors are usually well smoothed, exteriors less so. 

 FoBM ; 



Wall thickness: Average 5 to 6 mm., extreme range 3 to 10 mm. 



Lip: Flat or convex, usually with four high, evenly spaced, angular peaks 

 (rarely there are five such peaks). 



Base: Flat, disk shaped. 



Vessel shape and size: Occurs only as jars with globular or ovoid bodies. 

 Necks are relatively broad and curve outward. Strap handles are com- 

 mon, usually placed directly under the peaks on the rim. Nonfunctional 

 handles, with no opening between handle and vessel wall, are not un- 

 common, and simple nodes occasionally occur, evidently as vestigial rep- 

 resentations of handles. Most specimens fall into the height range of 

 from 10 to 25 cm., although miniatures only 5 or 6 cm. high and very 

 large jars up to 50 cm. in height are known. Oral diameters usually 

 are about equal to overall height. 

 Decoration : 



Treatment: Corrugation (produced by pinching the coils together with no 

 subsequent smoothing), fingernail punctating, and appliqueing. 



Decoration: Principal decoration is the horizontally corrugated neck. Oc- 

 casionally there are also horizontal rows of fingernail punctates im- 

 pressed on the unsmoothed coils. Vertical applique strips or rows of 

 nodes sometimes are present, usually placed directly in line with the 

 rim peaks, if present. They may extend from the rim almost to the 

 base; or be confined to either rim or body. Body decorations include: 

 2 or 3 rows of closely spaced horizontal fingernail punctates immedi- 

 ately below the neck; 4 or 5 triangles — with apexes down and bases 

 coinciding with the juncture of rim and body — made either with punc- 

 tates or applique strips and nodes ; vertical applique strips in various 

 arrangements. 

 CuLTUEAL AFTHJATioNs: A principal type of the Texarkana and McCurtain 

 Foci. 



DlSTEIBXTriON : 



Geographical: Northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma. 

 Temporal: Estimated, A.D. 1200-1500. 

 Remabks: Appears closely related typologically to La Rue Neck Banded of 



the Titus Focus. 

 BiBLioGRAPHT : Krieger, 1946, pp. 238-239 and pi. 35. Bell and Baerreis, 1951, 

 pi. 10. 



