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Wrapped-Stick Impressed.—T1 specimens. Rectilinear impressions by sticks 
or dowels wrapped with sinew, wooden splint, grass stem or like material, as 
in identifiable Buchanan Wrapped-Stick Impressed and Melville Wrapped-Stick 
Impressed sherds. 
Dentate Stamped.—7 specimens. Diagonal, elliptical impressions appear to 
be confined to the lip area, as in identifiable Parkhurst Dentate Stamped and 
Pingree Dentate Stamped sherds. 
Scored.—162 specimens. Shallow vertical or diagonal striations (pl. 34, c), 
presumably produced by a toothed wooden or bone implement or a corncob, 
occur on the exterior rim surface, as in identifiable Melville Scored sherds. 
Painted (?).—2 specimens. A sooty, black band on each of two smoothed, 
unslipped, dark buff-colored sherds (pl. 34, g, h) suggests an attempt at ceramic 
embellishment by the application of pigment rather than by the customary 
variants of tocl-imprinting (used in the very general sense). The sherds in 
question are too fragmentary to give any notion of the character and extent of 
the painted (?) decoration. 
Bopy SHERDS: 
A total of 8,902 minute to large, intact body sherds (that is, sherds ranging 
from 21.5 mm. or less to 62 mm. or more in maximum diameter, according to 
my own conventions, and preserving both exterior and interior surfaces) were 
collected from the Hintz site. Undoubtedly these sherds belong to one or another 
of the identified (rim) types discussed above, since with a single exception they 
share paste characteristics and size ranges with the latter. However, inasmuch 
as the body sherds were not directly related to the described types, they must 
be treated separately, according to the exterior surface finish observed. 
Simple Stamped.—2,053 specimens, or 23 percent of the sample. The sherds 
in this group, all unslipped, bear overall vertical or diagonal smooth grooves 
or troughs on the exterior surface which vary from 2 to 9 mm. in width and 
from 0.5 to 1 mm. in depth, and are separated by relatively narrow and sharp 
or relatively broad and rounded ridges (pl. 34, e, f). The smooth groove-ridge 
pattern was probably produced by the application of a thong-wrapped or grooved 
paddie to the exterior surface in malleating and incidentally decorating the 
vessel. The finish is called “simple stamping” in contemporary parlance for 
the sake of brevity and because the tool actually utilized in the process is not 
known or determinable with certainty. In numerous instances, the smooth 
grooves and ridges have been partially or almost totally obliterated by sub- 
sequent smoothing or buffing. For this reason it might be inferred that for 
many potters the decorative effect had no appeal. 
One medium-size sherd in the group was heavily tempered with finely crushed 
shell, and one minute sherd bears traces of red (hematite) film on parts of the 
interior surface. In each respect, these are unique specimens in the entire 
Hintz collection. The only comment I can offer is the personal opinion that 
the attributes manifested here are fortuitous within the local culture rather 
than indicative of extraneous cultural relationships. 
Cord-Marked.—252 specimens, or 8 percent of the sample. The sherds in this 
group, all unslipped, bear overall vertical or diagonal spiraled grooves or troughs 
on the exterior surface which range from 1 to 4 mm. in width and from 0.5 to 
1 mm. in depth, and are separated by relatively narrow and sharp or relatively 
broad and rounded ridges (pl. 34, d@). The spiraled groove-ridge pattern was 
probably produced by the application of a cord-wrapped paddle to the exterior 
surface in malleating and incidentally decorating the vessel (similar to the case 
of simple stamping). The finish is often called “cord roughening” in the 
Plains. This is unfortunate, since the results of overall impressing with a 
paddle wrapped with twisted cords and with a paddle wrapped with a knotted 
