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bears from one to three widely spaced horizontal cord-impressed lines. 
In 80 of the 87 examples, the impressions were made with cord having a 
tight clockwise (or S) twist; in the remaining 7 specimens, with a cord 
having a tight counterclockwise (or Z) twist. 
Buchanan Tool Impressed 
(Pl. 30, c) 
(Type sample: 27 individual rim-and-lip sherds, representing 27 vessels.) 
ForM: 
Lip: Usually rounded or flattened, sometimes beveled interiorly or ex- 
teriorly, sometimes extruded interiorly and/or exteriorly; 3.75 to 17.75 
mm. in width. 
Rim: Straight and flared, about 17.5 to about 33.5 mm. in height. Wall, 8.5 
to 7.5 mm. in thickness. 
DECORATIVE TREATMENT: Confined to the lip or the upper part of the interior or 
exterior surface of the rim, it includes closely to widely spaced parallel 
transverse, longitudinal, and diagonal (to the right or left) impressions 
on the lip—17 specimens (pl. 30, c), including the aforementioned shell- 
“tempered” sherd; widely spaced parallel diagonal or oval impressions 
on the outer or inner edge of the lip—four examples; closely to widely 
spaced parallel diagonal impressions, to the left or right, on the upper part 
of the exterior surface of the rim—three specimens; and closely spaced 
parallel diagonal impressions, to the left, on the upper part of the inner 
surface of the rim—three specimens. Considerable variety obtains in 
the outlines and cross sections of the “tool impressions’—from oblong to 
oval, and from U-shaped to a mark like this: v. Evidently the im- 
pressions were made by such instruments as stiff weed stems and pointed 
wooden or bone tools (see below) applied to the plastic clay fabric. 
Buchanan Punctated 
(P1. 30, d) 
(Type sample: 1 composite and 17 individual rim-and-lip sherds, represent- 
ing 15 vessels.) 
ForM: 
Lip: Usually rounded or flattened, sometimes extruded interiorly and ex- 
teriorly ; 5.5 to 7 mm. in width. 
Rim: Straight and flared, about 29 mm. in height. Wall, 5 to 6.5 mm. in 
thickness. 
DECORATIVE TREATMENT: Confined to lip or the upper part of the exterior surface 
of the rim, it consists of closely to widely spaced parallel oval to elliptical 
and rather deep punctates on the lip, oriented diagonally, longitudinally 
or at right angles with respect to the direction of the rim—13 specimens 
(pl. 30, d); closely to widely spaced parallel semilunar and rather deep 
punctates, oriented longitudinally with reference to the direction of the 
rim—three examples; and widely spaced parallel oval punctations on 
the upper part of the exterior surface of the rim, just below the exteriorly 
extruded (rolled) lip—two examples. The punctates appear to have been 
made by a pointed wooden or bone tool, or, in the case of the semilunar 
punctates, by the end of a hemispherical tool, e.g., half of a stiff weed stem 
or small bone. 
