pip No!' 25]' JO^^^ ^- KERR RESERVOIR BASIN — MILLER 165 



CLARKSVILLE PLAIN 

 (Pis. 65, G7) 



Paste : Same as for Clarksville Cord- Wrapped Paddle. 



StJRFACE FINISH : 



Modification: By definition both surfaces are smoothed and left untreated 

 as plain after first being textile-impressed. Surface is uneven and some 

 areas are smoother than others, which are rough and sandy to the touch. 

 Some interior surfaces have been combed after smoothing or roughly 

 smoothed leaving a very sandy raspy surface. 

 Decoration: Usually there is none, but in a few rare instances the lips are 

 treated on the exterior margins with a few "tick" lines or diagonal gashes. 

 Form: 



Bim: Mostly vertical and flaring. Rarely a thin coil thickening occurs on 



the exterior. 

 Lip: Rounded, rounded and flattened, tapering and rounded, or beveled. 

 Body: 



Ollas: Eliptical or rounded. 

 Boivls: Subconoidal. 

 Base: Conoidal in ollas and subconoidal to conoidal in bowls. 

 Shape: 



Ollas: Same as for Hyco Fabric-Marked. 



Bowls: Small, shallow, with uneven rims upon a slightly hemispherical 

 body, terminating in either a conoidal or subconoidal base. Diameters 

 range from 16 cm. to 20 cm., while depths vary from 6 cm. to 10 cm. 



Clarksville Plain is at no time plentiful. The term "plain" means 

 that this is the final treatment before the vessel was fired. This was 

 not the initial treatment but it was the result of obliterating the initial 

 textile impressions that were applied prior to smoothing. It appears 

 that the exteriors of all such vessels were initially textile-impressed 

 and that the surfaces were subsequently smoothed prior to the final 

 drying and firing. In a nmnber of instances these smoothed surfaces 

 were subsequently rubbed, creating a semipolished surface, which was 

 velvety-smooth to the touch. In other instances the term "plain" is 

 applied to small molded vessels whose surfaces are devoid of any treat- 

 ment. 



CLARKSVILLE CORN COB IMPRESSED 



(PI. 67, d, Jc) 

 Paste : See Clarksville Cord-Wrapped Paddle, 

 Surface finish : , 



Modification: See Clarksville Cord- Wrapped Paddle, 

 Decoration: 



Exteriors: The rolling or impressing of the corncob was usually con- 

 fined to the neck portions of ollas and seldom applied to the shoulder 

 areas. No vessels were found that indicate that the cob was im- 

 pressed over the entire exterior surface. The cob impressions appear 

 to have been implanted after the exterior was first fabric-impressed 

 and then roughly smoothed. No folded rims or added rim strips were 

 noted on this ware. The usual percentage of lips received this same 

 treatment. 

 Interiors: Smoothed or smoothed and combed over a moderately regu- 

 lar and slightly uneven surface. 



