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Fobm: 



Rim: Short and slightly flaring. 



Lip: Rounded, flattened and rounded, and slightly tapered and rounded. 



Body: Elliptical. 



Body thickness: Averages 8 mm. 



Base: Conoidal. 



Shape: Typical Woodland olla. 



"Corn Cob Impressed" is the term that applies to a surface treat- 

 ment covering the upper part of the shoulder, neck, and rim areas of a 

 vessel over which a corncob was rolled or impressed. In practically 

 all instances the lower shoulder, body, and basal portions received tex- 

 tile impressions. Whether the remainder of the vessel received similar 

 treatment before the corncob was applied could not positively be deter- 

 mmed since the cob impressions, wherever they occurred, destroyed all 

 former surface treatment. Perhaps it would be far more correct to 

 call such a ware "corncob impressed on textile impressed," but since 

 this is a rather long term, one must assume that the corncob impres- 

 sions were superimposed upon textile impressions. In no instance 

 within the reservoir was it fomid that the corncob was applied to the 

 entire exterior surface of a vessel. 



Vessels of this type were occasionally treated with limited amounts 

 of finger pinching, usually in the neck and lip areas. Such treatment 

 can be assessed as a variation rather than a distinct type in the mode 

 of decoration. 



CLAKKSVILLE TEXTILE ROUGHENED 



(PL 66, I, p) 



Paste : See Clarksville Cord-Wrapped Paddle. 

 Surface finish : 



Modification: See Clarksville Cord-Wrapped Paddle. 



Decoration: Exterior surfaces were either given a single treatment in which 

 a wad of crumpled textile is impressed into the surface, or this treatment 

 was compounded by overlapping, making it difHcult, if next to impossible, 

 to distinguish the techniques of weaving. At times single cord elements 

 are recognizable only after plaster casts have been struck off, indicating 

 that the individual elements ranged from 2 mm. or less in diameter. 

 Often the surface was partially swiped over, obliterating most of the 

 fabric impressions. Small areas of combing have been noted, which ap- 

 pear to underlie the textile impressions. Whether the surface was first 

 combed and subsequently treated with textiles could not be determined. 

 Interior surfaces were either smoothed, partially smoothed, with the 

 extruded sandy particles of the paste making the surface very raspy to 

 the touch, or combed, leaving the typical parallel or crisscross striations. 

 Lips were mostly diagonally ticked along the exterior edge, less often 

 pinched, and pimctations are extremely rare. 

 lUms were seldom treated so as to give added decoration. 



