160 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHnSTOLOGT [Bull. 182 



CLAEKSVILLE CORD-WKAPPED PADDLE 



(PI. 65, a, t, g, j, k, I, m) 

 Paste: 



Method of manufacture: Either by coiling or placement of annular rings. 

 This is shown by coil-line fractures and poorly bonded smoothed surfaces 

 which display partial welding of adjacent coils or rings. 

 Temper: Medium fine to medium coarse sand. Only an occasional gravel 

 particle is present. The quantity approaches about one-third of the total 

 mixture, giving a rather sandy feel to the paste. 

 Texture: Moderately porous, slightly contorted in various specimens, and 

 sandy. It ranges from a compact, fine, sandy mixture to a moderately 

 loose, coarse, noncompact mixture with large amounts of sand. 

 Color: Ranges from gray, gray buff, browns of various hues, to blacks. 

 Color is mostly represented on the exterior of the walls of either surface 

 with a darkened central core. 

 Firing: Oxido-reducing atmosphere, with smudges of flre-clouds on the 

 exteriors and rather intensely blackened on the interiors. With such 

 poorly controlled methods of firing, a single vessel may run the gamut of 

 color range. 

 Surface finish : 

 Modifications: 



Exteriors: Exterior surfaces were, for the most part, carefully smoothed 

 to assure sealing between joints. Only rarely was the surface poorly 

 smoothed. 

 Interiors: Interiors were given two general treatments: Carefully 

 smoothed to insure complete sealing of the joints, or smoothed with 

 either the wet hand or some wet fragment of cloth which left the 

 surface streaked and exceedingly rough with particles of the sandy 

 aplastic still protruding from the surface. 

 Decoration: 



Exteriors: Exteriors were impressed with either a paddle or the hand 

 wrapped with either a fine (1 mm.), medium (1.5-2.0 mm.), or 

 coarse (2.5 mm. — ) two-strand simple-twisted cord with a single, non- 

 overlapping stroke, which imparted either a vertical, horizontal, or 

 diagonal impression to the area from the rim to the base of the vessel. 

 Lips were similarly treated in a number of cases but as a rule they 

 were untreated. 

 Interiors: Interiors were mostly smoothed, some combed, and some 

 roughly smoothed. 

 Form: 



Rim: Mostly vertical with occasional fiaring, or folded. 

 Lips : Simple rounded, flattened, slightly rounded and tapered. 

 Body: Mostly deep wide-mouthed bowls. Impressions occasionally oc- 

 curring on small oUa forms. 

 Base: Conoidal. 



Cord-wrapped 7?a<Zc?Ze.— Cord-wrapped paddle refers to a treat- 

 ment in which a paddle is wrapped with a series of cords, either 

 loosely, closelj', or criss-cross spaced and applied to the exterior sur- 

 face of a vessel. These malleations may be applied eitlier carefully 

 or over the same area a number of times, creating a poorly defined 

 effect in which the unit elements become so confused as to prevent 

 determining ih^ size and twist of the individual elements. 



