pip. >fo^' 2^lY' TEXARKANA RESERVOIR — JELKS 27 



ward the neck. Oral diameter Is usually less than the maximum di- 

 ameter of the body. Most specimens are from 12 to 24 cm. high, no 

 extremely large or small examples having been noted. 

 Decokation : 



Treatment: Appliqueing, punctating, incising, and brushing. 

 Design: A horizontal band of closely spaced punctates usually encircles 

 the external surface at the lip. There is a similar band of punctates 

 at the juncture of rim and body in most cases. The rim is decorated 

 with heavy, horizontal brushing; or with straight incised lines laid hori- 

 zontally, diagonally, or vertically; or with rows of closely spaced punc- 

 tates. The body is divided into panels of apparently random sizes and 

 shapes by either applique strips or rows of closely spaced punctates, or 

 both. The panels are filled in with brushing, parallel incised lines, or 

 parallel dashed lines with the dashes made by a "punch and drag" tech- 

 nique. One of the consistent characteristics of Pease is that the entire 

 external surface, except for the base, is heavily decorated, so that there 

 are no plain areas of sufficient size to stand out in contrast. 

 Cultural affiliations: Indigenous type of the Bossier Focus. Present lu 

 small quantity at the Hatchel Mound, type site of the Texarkana Focus. 

 Appears closely related to type Haley Complicated Incised of the Haley 

 Focus, but decorations are not so elaborate as for that type. General design 

 and some of the decorative techniques are reminiscent of type Sinner Linear 

 Punctate of the Bossier Focus. 



DiSTKTBUTION ! 



Oeographieal : Includes Belcher and Texarkana Foci areas of northeastern 

 Texas and northwestern Louisiana. Possibly occurs in southeastern 

 Arkansas and southwestern Oklahoma. 



Temporal: Estimated, A.D. 1200-1600. 

 BiBLioGEAPHY I Webb, 1948, pp. 110-113. 



Table 1 (p. 34) includes a list of complete vessels, mostly from the 

 burials, and sherds from general digging. The most common types 

 are Barkman Engraved,^ Pease Brushed-Incised, McKinney Plain, 

 Nash Neck Banded, Dunkin Incised, late variant, and Baytown-like. 



The validity of the type Dunkin Incised, late variant, in the pres- 

 ent context is subject to an element of doubt. There are no complete 

 Dunkin A^essels nor any large sherds that might indicate with accu- 

 racy the exact nature of an entire vessel. There are, however, two 

 complete vessels of type Pease Brushed-Incised (pis. 1, e, and 2, a) 

 that have incised areas almost identical in pattern to Dunkin In- 

 cised. There is the possibility, therefore, that some or all of the 

 sherds classified here as Dunkin are actually portions of Pease 

 vessels (see Dunkin sherds, pi. 8, h, i). Webb (1948, pp. 118-121) 

 in his excellent paper defining the Bossier Focus identifies a number 

 of sherds as Dunkin Incised, late variant. Since Pease is common 



4 Some of the sherds classified here as Barkman Engraved may actually be of the type 

 Taylor Engraved. So far as decoration is concerned, Taylor is distinguished from Barlt- 

 man mainly by the division of the decorated zone Into separate panels ; therefore unless 

 a sherd of Taylor Is large enough to contain about one-fourth of the decorated area of 

 the vessel, it is impossible in some cases to distinguish it from Barkman. In the ab- 

 sence of complete vessels that can definitely be identified as Taylor, the sherds from the 

 Texarkana sites were all tabulated as Barkman. 



