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zigzag impressions experimentally made by us on modelling clay with the 
object illustrated on Plate XIX, figure 19, may be seen on Plate IX, figure 
10. Those on the left made with the object held vertically resemble the 
impressions on the fragment of pottery illustrated on Plate X, figure 21, and 
those on the right made with the object held obliquely resemble the impres- 
sions on the fragments illustrated on Plate X, figures 1, 19, 23. 
Patterson noticed this zigzag roulette work on specimens in his col- 
lection, and states (a, page 225) that the decoration on the pottery was 
sometimes made with the points of small teeth of an instrument about 2 
inches long, that one straight row of tooth impressions was made, then 
one end of the instrument was swung around, and a second row made at 
an angle with the first row, then the other end was moved in the same way, 
and thus a zigzag was formed. Similar zigzag impressions, made with 
a stamp, occur on fragments of pottery found by Loomis in a shell-heap 
in Maine 1 . 
Lines at right angles to the trend of the rim show on the fragment 
of a thick rim having a large scallop, one of a lot of fragments of one pot, 
illustrated on Plate X, figure 16. This fragment is apparently a piece of the 
same pot as is shown in figure 12. Both the lines and spaces between them 
vary in width, and to the left are pits, apparently made with a stylus. 
These two features suggest that the whole work is freehand stylus markings, 
and it is difficult to believe that it is stamp or rocking stamp work. On the 
inside of this rim the lines curve up at a slight angle to the edge and con- 
tinue over and across on the rim obliquely at about 45 degrees to its edges. 
Designs made up of straight or curved lines of transverse and parallel 
or nearly parallel impressions of two-ply twisted cord were made with 
cord wound on a twig or similar object about an eighth of an inch in dia- 
meter. This object was at least in some cases curved, possibly in the 
form of a hoop or loop. The impressions may have been made with the 
edge of a basket or birch-bark vessel whipped with cord. Such lines 
of transverse cord impressions may be seen on one hundred and eighty- 
one fragments of the pottery, the equivalent of about thirty-eight pots. 
Of the twenty fragments of pottery found in the prehistoric cemetery 
about half bear these lines. 
Straight rows of such cord impressions may be seen on the fragments 
of pottery illustrated on Plate VIII, figure 11, Plate IX, figure 4, and 
Plate XI, figures 1-5, 7-12. How these were made is suggested by similar 
impressions on modelling clay, experimentally made by us with the twig 
wound with twisted cord, illustrated on Plate IX, figure 11. These are 
illustrated in figure 14. Curved lines of such impressions may be seen on 
the fragments illustrated on Plate XI, figures 3, 5, 6, and similar impres- 
sions on modelling clay, experimentally made by the writer with the 
loop of twig w r ound with twisted cord illustrated on Plate IX, figure 13, are 
illustrated on Plate IX, figure 16. They were apparently made chiefly to 
decorate rather than to malleate the ware as they are shallow, do not over- 
lap, and are sparse. 
Lines of such parallel transverse cord impressions show on the fragment 
illustrated on Plate XI, figure 1, which is one of twelve fragments of the 
1 Cf. Loomis, Fig. 14. 
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