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row of obliquely incised marks. In some cases (figure 9) the cord was 
about twice the usual size, as indicated by the straight rows of transverse 
parallel impressions. On this piece the coils are wider apart than usual. 
The cord is larger and the spacing of the coil is greater on the fragment of the 
rim of a pot illustrated in figure 10, in which the two-ply nature of the cord 
shows particularly well. The cord was clearly twisted clockwise and the 
individual strands are twisted counter-clockwise. On the middle of the 
rather fiat rim is a band of parallel impressions of cord, each impression 
being at an angle of about 45 degrees to the tangent of the rim. 
Both distinctness of impression and wide spacing of the cord are also 
shown on the rim fragment illustrated in the next figure. The cord was 
twisted counter-clockwise. The strands impressed on the fragment 
illustrated in figure 12 are more loosely twined, but some of the impressions 
show clearly a counter-clockwise twist. 
Impressions apparently made w T ith strips of bark, or with a split 
root or wooden splint like the edge of a basket, rather than with twisted 
cord or with rocking stamp or a carved paddle, may be seen applied thickly 
and irregularly on five pieces that probably represent three pots, all from 
heap A, one of which is illustrated on Plate XI, figure 14. 
Rows of transverse impressions, apparently made with a square - 
cornered band or lashing, may be seen on the fragment of a rim illustrated 
in figure 15. The impressions are slightly oblique in the rows, and the 
rows are irregularly spaced, the two at the top overlapping. These rows 
also cross the edge of the rim in long obliques. Similar rows of nearly 
transverse impressions made with the twig wound wfith square-cut splints, 
illustrated on Plate IX, figure 12, have been experimentally made on 
modelling clay (Plate IX, figure 15). 
The impression of fabric is suggested by the four fragments of pottery 
illustrated on Plate XI, figure 7. All of these are from one pot. They 
bear long rows of transverse cord impressions resembling those made with a 
cord-wound twig, vertical lines of what seem to be impressions of twisted 
cord, and rows of pits. The rows of transverse cord impressions near the 
rim are oblique and parallel; those lower down are horizontal and possibly 
encircled the pot. The length, regularity, and continuity of the lines (See 
also figure 1) suggest that the impression is of a bag used in lifting or holding 
together the soft, unfired pot; or that the pottery was built up inside a bag 
that was burned in firing the vessel, the row of pits corresponding to a 
row of knots. 
The purpose of the roughening on some of the ware, where it is appar- 
ently not decorative (Plate XI, figure 14), may have been to keep it from 
slipping in the hands. In fact the decorative work may have served this 
purpose secondarily. 
An impression seemingly of woven porcupine quills or moose hair 
may be seen on three fragments of pottery (Plate IX, figure 6, Plate X, 
figure 24, and Plate XI, figure 13). These impressions do not show a 
twist, nor are they as rough or as even longitudinally as those made by 
cord. They bend suddenly as if made by a quill or hair rather than by 
soft cord, and they do not show striations like impressions of grass. A 
positive of this fabric made by making a plaster mould of the impression 
on the fragment of pottery illustrated on Plate IX, figure 6, is shown on 
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