pip No!' 3^4"/' DEMERY SITE — ^WOOLWORTH AND WOOD 99 



Shoulder: The rims join the body in a smooth curve. On the restored vessel 

 (pL 14, &) the shoulders are rounded and steeply sloping, and the body 

 is globular with a round base. 



Size: Measurements of the restored vessel include : 



Height 313 mm. 



Diameter at shoulder 355 



Orifice diameter 255 



Lip thickness 8 



Rim height 45 



Rim/body thickness 3-5 



Capacity (liquid) 18 qts. 



Appendages: Lugs on three vessels project out from the lower limits of the 

 lip bevel. They are decorated by a continuation of the rim design. 

 Comments: Some of the attributes of this group are shared by pottery from 

 Biesterfeldt, a Cheyenne site on the Sheyenne River in southeastern North 

 Dakota (Strong, 1940, pp. 370^76; Wood, 1955, pp. 3-8). At the Biesterfeldt 

 site the rim is characteristically beveled or "wedge-shaped" in cross section; 

 this rim form occurs on a few of the Demery rims. A few of the rims from 

 the Huff site of the type HufC Plain and Huff Braced Rim (Wood, MS. a) recall 

 this rim form at Demery. 

 5. Flaking Rims, Coed-Roughetned (pi. 13, j-k) . 

 Sample: Six vessels. 



Paste: Generally similar to that described under the heading "General Char- 

 acteristics," except that the grit is somewhat coarser and the clay is not as 

 well worked. The edges crumble easily on the more coarsely tempered sherds. 

 A single sherd from Feature 51 contains particles of what appear to be shell, 

 which effervesce under the action of diluted hydrochloric acid. It is possible 

 that the shell was originally in the clay, and some of it has been destroyed by 

 chemical weathering, since some of the particles effervesced only slightly even 

 when treated with undiluted acid. 

 Surface finish : The exterior rim is vertically cord-roughened, this treatment 

 extending down over the shoulder. There is some horizontal smoothing on 

 necks, although body sherds may or may not be smoothed. The cord used 

 had an S-twist. 

 Decoration : 



lAp: One rim is marked with oblique tool impressions; another has oblique 

 punctates applied at a low angle to the lip top by a pointed tool; the 

 other four are plain. 

 Rim/ shoulder: No decoration observed. 

 Form: 



Lip: Flat. 



Rim: Slightly outflaring, most rims closely resembling rim form J (fig. 13). 

 Rim thickness is 7 to 8 mm. ; height is indeterminate, but in excess of 

 30 to 50 mm. 

 Body: One large sherd built up from fragments suggests that the shoulder 

 is rounded, probably blending smoothly with the rim. The even thickness 

 of all body sherds, about 4 mm., indicates that the vessel walls were of 

 nearly constant thickness. 

 Appendages: None observed. 

 Comments: The cord-roughened surfaces and certain characteristics of the 

 paste set this group of rims apart from the rest of the Demery pottery. From 

 what can be observed, however, vessel form does not appear to depart signifl- 

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