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The rim was .smoothed down w ith the tiiigeis. and tlie interior .surface 

 was fini.shi'd witli the scarifying tool, loughiy apphod. In a few cases 

 rude ornamental effects have been produced by using the finger nail 

 as a roulette, giving nuich the effect of fine net impressions. The nail 

 was rolled Ijack and forth as the finger was nioA'ed with rather strong 

 jiressure around the neck of the vessel. A specimen of this unitpie 

 treatment is .shown in plate cxxxid. and some simpler finger-nail work 

 is .seen in plate cxxxiir/. The use of a notched indenting tool is indi- 

 cated in plate cxxxi /'. Narrow fillets of clay were in cases i-iidely 

 laid on and decorated with the nail in herringbone effects. 



The surface treatment of a number of specimens is identieal with 

 that of the net-marked vase from Caldwell county, shown in tlie pre- 

 ceding .section, plate cxxix. It appears evident that in finishing the 

 rim of the vase a fillet of n(>tting was wrapped about the neck to cause 

 the desired consti'iction and hold the \'essel together while the margin 

 was pressed outward and finished. 



The .sherds .shown in plate cxxxii /< and r. the former from AVilson, 

 North Carolina, and the latter from Clarksville, Virginia, illustrate 

 the use of the cord roulette or cord-wrapped stamp in texturing and 

 malleating the surface of \-essels. The effect of rolling the tool back 

 and forth is readily seen. The small fragment gi\-en in rZ shows the 

 use of a wooden stamp witli a neat design in curved lines in South 

 Appalachian style. The clay retains the imjiressions of the grain of the 

 wood. In e the surface has })een textured with a wooden stamp or 

 paddle the face of which was grooved, the effect being very like that 

 of stamping with cord-covered tools. 



PiKDMONT Virginia Wake" 



In northwestern North Carolina and in southwestern Virginia a 

 .somewhat marked local variety of pottery is developed which partakes 

 to some extent of the character of the ware of the far Northwest, and 

 probably represents some of the tril)es which occupied the A'irginia 

 highland about the period of English colonization. Indeed, traces of 

 this variety occur on the James in its middle course, and appear on the 

 Dan, the Yadkin, and possiblj' on the upper Shenandoah. It occurs 

 plentifully on New river, and will no doubt be found to extend down 

 the westward-fiowing streams, thus connecting with the little-known 

 groups of northeastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, and western 

 West Virginia. The pottery is always rude, and consists of simple 

 pots, nearly always showing the soot-blackened surfaces of culinary 

 utensils. Their strongest characteristics are the very general presence 

 of rudely modeled looped handles, which connect the outcurved rim 

 with the shoidder, l)ridging a short, slightly consti'i<-ted neck, and the 



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