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impressed surface treatment, as described, is just one facet in the whole 

 gamut of fabric-impressing. The interior surface, besides being 

 fabric impressed, may be smoothed and later treated with some blunt- 

 toothed tool which leaves the surface scored by a number of shallow, 

 squared to bluntly rounded grooves usually running in a general hori- 

 zontal direction. Wliether this internal grooving served some func- 

 tional purpose cannot be determined. Lips are often ticked by 

 impressing either with a cord or with a bluntly pointed instrument 

 at a diagonal or straight across. 



Ill both these wares the outer and inner lip margins, as well as the 

 upper portions of the throat, are treated with what appears to be a 

 form of fabric-marking or a cord-wrapped-stick or dowel. Some- 

 times this treatment is carried over onto the rim from the throat 

 area, a method that is not consistent. Such treatment is not thought 

 to be diagnostic enough, at the present time, to warrant setting tliis 

 up as a distinct pottery type. 



Simple stamped, as the term implies, indicates that the ware was 

 malleated with either a thong, a sinew, or a root-wrapped paddle, 

 leaving behind smooth impressions in counterdistinction to cord- 

 wrapped or prepared paddles wherein the design was carved upon 

 the surface of the malleating tool. Similar treatment has been re- 

 corded for Mossy Oak Simple Stamped and Deptford Simple 

 Stamped. 



The term "plain" means that the surface received no additional 

 treatment after the vessel was completed, at which time all junctures 

 of coils were completely sealed, tool marks obliterated, and the whole 

 smoothed by the potter. 



The term "coarse net impressed" comes from the fact that a wide- 

 meshed net, as distinguished from a later fine-meshed net, was very 

 carefully impressed on the exteriors of vessels. In some cases only 

 one thickness of the net was applied, while in other instances a double 

 thickness was used. In no case was any attempt made to obliterate 

 the impressions. 



At times the interior surfaces, and to a lesser degree some exterior 

 surfaces, were scored, scratched, or combed, resulting in a series of 

 shallow, parallel, rounded-bottomed grooves as though a toothed or 

 serrated object was drawn across the surface to create such impres- 

 sions. Grooves of this type are not the result of "brushing," as they 

 are much too evenly spaced. All grooves are of equal depth, width, 

 and smoothness, which would not have resulted if the surfaces were 

 brushed with bundles of grass stems or small twigs. In applying the 

 comblike tool, it had to be scraped across the surface with an even 



