FABRIC-IMPRESSED POTTERY. 



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a pliable cloth or bag woven in the twined styled. The impressions 

 are not the result of a single application of the texture, but consist of 

 several disconnected imprintings as if the hand or a paddle covered 

 with cloth had been used in handling the vessel or in imparting a 

 desired finish to the surface. 



Fio. 13.— Fabric marked vase from a mound in North Carolina. 



Specimens of diagonal fabrics, restored from potsherds, are given in 

 figures 14 and 15. The first is a very neatly woven diagonal from the 

 ancient pottery of Polk county, Tennessee. Two series of cords have 

 been interwoven at right angles to each other, but so arranged as to 

 produce the diagonal effect. One series of the cords is flue and well 



Fig. 14.— Diagonal fabric, ancient pottery of Tennessee. 



twisted, the other coarser and very slightly twisted. The second is a 

 piece of matting restoi^ed from tlie impression on a small piece of pot- 

 tery collected in Alabama. It was probably made of rushes or heavy 

 blades of grass. 



Twined weaving prevails in the fabrics impressed on pottery as in 

 those from all other aboriginal sources. An example of the simplest 



