80 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES (eth.akn .20 



Decorative eli'ects closely resembling those produced l)y the use of 

 cords and the rocking tool were made l\v narrow, notched stamps 

 applied to the plastic surface in the manner indicated in figure 45. 

 Connecting directly Avith this simple stamp work, in which a succes- 

 sion of separate imprintings give the textile effects, is the use of the 

 eiigra\'ed modeling and decorating paddle, so common in the South 

 Appalachian I'egion. 



Two Cherokee paddles with engraved surfaces are given in figure 

 i6a and h. and the efl'ect of the u.se of similar implements is shown in 

 figure -it. Th(> sherds illustrated are from Florida moimds. 



In figure 48 is presented a hit of ware from a New Jersey village site 

 in which t(>xtile-like combinations of lines have been worked out with 

 an incised tool. 



Owing to the close association of these rouletted, stamped, and 

 incised efiects with the textile-imprinted groups of ware, I feel war- 

 ranted in speaking of them as in general growing directly out of textile 

 practices, although they are not necessarily always so connected, as 

 the use of the stamp may in cases have arisen from the use of non- 

 textile tools in modeling. 



It is thus seen from what has been said that the textile art has served 

 in various ways to shape and modify the ceramic art, and the textile 

 teehnic has l)e(iueathed its geometric characters to the younger art. 

 giving rise to most varied forms of embellishment, and no doulit pro- 

 foundly affecting the later phases of its development. 



POTTERY OF THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 



In presenting a review of the several groups or varieties of earthen- 

 ware it seems advisable to liegin with that group most fully represented 

 in our collections, as it will exhibit the widest range of those features 

 and phenomena with which we must in all cases deal. By far the 

 most complete in every essential is the great group of utensils repre- 

 senting the middle INIississippi valley region. The descriptions and 

 illustrations of this group will serve as a basis of comparison in pre- 

 .senting all other groujjs. thus greatly facilitating and abbreviating the 

 work. 



Geogeaphic Distribution 



The geographic distribution of the ware of this group naturally 

 rec^ves first consideration. Apparently its greatest and most strik- 

 ing development centers about the contiguous portions of Arkansas, 

 Missouri. Illinois. Kentucky, and Tennessee. The area covered is 

 much greater, however, than would thus be indicated; its l)orders are 

 extremely irregular, and are not as yet at all clearly defined. Typical 

 specimens are found as far north as Chicago, as far northeast as 



