Pap. ■?fo.' S5T HOSTERMAN SITE — MILLER 175 



Lips: Several lip treatments were represented in this group : 



1. Plain and rounded — ^239 lips, 28.5 percent of lips. 



2. Ticked or tooled — 497 lips, 59.2 percent of lips. 



3. Herringbone incised — 80 lips, 9.5 percent of lips. 



4. Punctated — 23 lips, 2.8 percent of lips. 



Decobation : A zone of incised decoration was confined to the upper portion of 

 the S-shaped rims, excluding lip treatment. Design techniques consisted of in- 

 cising, including broad trailing, sometimes combined with punctations (fig. 39, 

 a, 6, c). There is a wide latitude in the design form from the simplest, which 

 is a series of horizontal parallel lines crudely drawn across the upper portion 

 of the neck. In certain vessels these lines were interspersed with an equal 

 number of herringbone elements, or were bordered either at the top or bottom 

 with punctations, or short diagonal lines. Then, there were rows of vertical or 

 diagonal incised lines with their combinations ; herringbone designs ; opposed 

 diagonals ; lineated bands framed by diagonals : broad incised diagonals ; 

 broad-trailed diagonals ; and curvilinear "rainbows" on a lineate field. 



Plain S-shaped eims : 138 rims ; 13.2 percent of rims. 



Fobm: 



Rims: Same as for incised. 



Lips: Same as for incised with the addition of finger indented — 1. 



Decobation : Surface has been smoothed after being paddled. No decoration 

 applied. 



Cord-impbessed S-shaped eims : 62 rims, 6.0 percent of rims. 



Form: 



Rims: Same as for incised. 



Lips : The four basic lip treatments still apply with the exception that four 

 additional sherds were present whose lips were crossed with cord impres- 

 sions. 



Decobation : Type A (Le Beau Horizontal Cord Impressed) has a series of hori- 

 zontal cord impressions running parallel in the series starting just below the 

 outer edge of the lip and continued down over the major part of the upper 

 curve of the S-shaped rim. Type B (Rygh Rainbow Corded) has its series 

 of horizontal parallel impressions interrupted by the insertion of a rainbow 

 element made by impressing short segments of cords in this fashion to create 

 this effect. 



CoRD-iMPRESSED S-SHAPED RIMS : 62 rims, 6.0 percent of rims. These resemble 

 the Le Beau Horizontal Corded of Hurt's (1957 b, p. 41, fig. 21, 5) type descrip- 

 tion and a few are identical with the Rygh Rainbow Corded (ibid., p. 42, fig. 

 21, 1). Both of these types are well described and illustrated by Hurt so 

 there will be no need to repeat these here. 



Rim decoration (fig. 37, 7-12), on vertical necked vessels with 

 rounded lips, resembles the "unnamed" ware of Hewes (1949, pp. 59- 

 60, pi. VI, a,h) of the Heart Butte Campsite, 32GT1, North Dakota. 

 As indicated by Hewes this ware resembles one from the Burgois 

 or Double Ditch site on the Missouri River, North Dakota (Will and 

 Spinden, 1906, fig. 40, a) and from sites in the Upper Missouri Valley, 

 North Dakota (Will and Hecker, 1944, pi. 6) all of which date in 

 the late I7th and early 18th centuries. 



Rim decoration (fig. 37, 32 and 33), wliich is cord impressed on S- 

 shaped rims with rounded lips, resembles part of the "unnamed" ware 



