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Figure 34. — Horizontal parallel incised rim sherd. 



show that a very sharply pointed instrument was used, resulting in a 

 very narrow line of moderate depth. Others, of a trailing nature, were 

 made by using a wide blunt-bladed implement, resulting in a wide, 

 coarse, shallow, trouglilike line showing a poor sense of symmetry and 

 touch. The design was not only carelessly drawn but it was not 

 always complete (fig. 34) . This kind has been called Nordvold Hori- 

 zontal Incised. These are the extremes ; there are some that range in 

 between. 



Brushing was confined mostly to the exterior neck and upper shoul- 

 der areas. It was also associated with various other exterior surface 

 treatments. Some brushing, in which parallel strokes were used, oc- 

 curred in the upper portion of throat areas, but this was not a prev- 

 alent practice. The areas that were brushed carried a series of 

 sharply defined parallel vertical or horizontal scratches either at right 

 angle to the lip or parallel to the lip and appeared to be the result of 

 using a bundle of coarse grass or small twigs. 



Several sherds were noticed bearing red pigment mostly on the in- 

 terior. These showed that some sort of slurry made of powdered 

 ocher was applied. None of the vessels appeared to have been fired 

 after this application of the pigment, which, at the present time, could 

 easily be brushed off onto the finger as it was rubbed across the sur- 

 face. This color can truly be called a "fugitive red" even though some 

 of the pigment had worked its way into the natural pores of the 

 vessel walls and in so doing had given the surface a faint pinkish or 

 reddish hue. This trait was checked under a microscope a number of 

 times and it was seen that the porosity of the vessel walls was just a 

 "natural" for absorbing this material. 



Wlienever cord impressions occurred, they were confined to the rim, 

 the lip, or to the upper portions of the shoulder area. Cord impres- 

 sions on the lip were rare, but they were numerous enough so that 

 various types of treatment could be determined. They occurred either 

 as a series of parallel impressions running straight across the lip, or at 

 a diagonal, or as a series of parallel impressions covering most of 

 the lip as they encircled the vessel. Practically all of the cord was 



