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In applying these textiles to the exteriors, and sometimes carrying 

 them over into the throat of a vessel, the fabrics were placed either 

 directly against the pliant walls of the vessel and then patted firmly 

 into the place, or the vessel was inserted into a cloth bag, or within 

 a piece of textile, and the vessel rolled or patted firmly to achieve 

 the same result. In the former, large sections of the original fabric 

 would be imprinted onto the exterior walls, which would show very 

 little overlapping of impression, while in the latter the result would 

 be one continuous pattern. 



Textile roughening was achieved by balling up a small wad of 

 textile and daubing it once or several times against the pliant walls, 

 leaving behind a roughened imprint imperfect in detail, so that 

 identification of the weave was practically next to impossible to deter- 

 mine. To further complicate matters the native potter would then 

 partially obliterate this "stamping" and then treat the vessel with 

 another tyj^e of fabric. Only with the use of modeling clay can one 

 make out a positive element in the textile used on the exterior surface 

 of a vessel thus treated. 



Whenever lips were treated the outer margins were the areas to be 

 modified. These modifications were in the form of incisions, abrupt 

 ridges pinched into form, shallow grooves made by dragging a blunt 

 or flat instrument in varying directions, and partial perforations 

 made by impressing small grass stems or reeds or dull pointed imple- 

 ments into linear or other forms. 



Occasionally we will find that the base of the neck or the top of 

 the shoulder of ollas was ornamented. Usually these areas were 

 treated with rows of indentations which best can be described as 

 triangular pyramidal, semilunate, or just plain incisions which were 

 cut into the clay with some sharp-bladed object. Only rarely was 

 the clay of this region pinched into a series of parallel ridges, punc- 

 tated, or indented with the fingernails. A comparable effect of the 

 fingernail indentation was achieved by using a spatulate-shaped tool 

 with a rounded edge which was dragged across the area and pushed 

 into the soft clay at more or less regular intervals at an angle. Punc- 

 tations, about the size and diameter of small grass stems and delimited 

 by incised lines, were made with either hollow or solid objects. These 

 were confined to the shoulder areas of jars. We found this treatment 

 to be very rare. 



Paired parallel trailed lines were rarely used. We found this 

 treatment on a restorable jar which was first treated with a textile 

 and the lines superimposed over this treatment. The lines started 

 at the lip and trailed downward diagonally almost to the base of 

 the vessel. 



We must also contemplate the use of combing or brushing. It is 

 a matter of semantics whether these can be considered a form of 



