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in mobit general use, but their markings were imitated in various ways, 

 as by imprinting strings of beads and slender sticks or sinews wrapped 

 with thread or other unwoven strands. 



Various JIeans op Imitating Textile Characters 



It would :>een) that the textile idea in decoration went beyond the 

 imprinting of textiles and eords, and that textile markings were imitated 

 in many ways, indicating possibly the association of ideas of a special 

 traditional nature with the textile work and their perpetuation in cera- 

 mics bj' the imitation of textile characters. A few of these imitations 



Fig. J.*^ — Incised designs of textile character. About one-half actual size. 



may be mentioned. In figui'e -1:2 is shown a small pt)t to which the 

 appearance of a basket has been given by ])inching up the plaster 

 surface with the fingei' nails. 



The notched wheel or roulette, restored in tigure 40 h. was used in 

 imitating cord-made patterns, and this was probably an outgrowth 

 of the use of cord-covered malleating tools. This tool was contined 

 rather closeh' to one great group of potterj-, the so-called roulette- 

 decorated ware of the Noi'thwest. Its effective u.se is shown in figure 

 40c', and in illustrations of the ware o-iven in the .sections treating of 

 the pottery of the Northwest. The manner of using the implement is 

 well illustrated in figure 43, where an improvised wheel has been 

 inked and rocked back and forth on a sheet of paper. The potsherds 

 shown in figure 44 illustrate these markings as applied by the ancient 

 potters. 



