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Impressing. Impressing was done upon pottery for decorative 
purposes, before firing, probably with a stylus, in making lines, gashes, 
and dots (Plate X, figures 1-6, 12, 13), and in making scallops (figure 11); 
with the rocking stamp (figures 1, 14-27); with twisted cords (Plate XI, 
figures 1-12) ; and with what apparently was woven fabric made of porcu- 
pine quils or moose hair (Plate IX, figure 6, Plate X, figure 24, and Plate 
XI, figure 13). Impressions made with net work, with carved paddles, or 
with paddles covered with either cord or netting were not found. 
Twisting. The process of cord-making is known to have existed, 
there being impressions on pottery (Plate XI, figures 1-3, 5-12), but no 
tools for the process have been recognized among the finds made here. 
Judging by these impressions the cord was two-ply. Cord was probably 
twisted with the fingers or upon the thigh, and was no doubt made from 
vegetable material, possibly basswood bark, as among modern Indians 
inhabiting the same area. 
Knitting. No evidence of net-making was recognized, there being 
no impressions of netting on pottery, but some of the objects made of 
bone, notably the needles illustrated on Plate XVII, figures 17-20, the 
awls in figures 3-16, and the peculiar objects made of bone and a canine 
tooth on Plate VII, figures 5-8, may have been used as shuttles or net 
needles, like the needles used by the Micmacs in netting snowshoes (Plate 
XXI, figure 5). 
Weaving. Three fragments of one pot bear impressions that seem 
to be of woven porcupine quills or moose hair (Plate IX, figure 7, Plate 
X, figure 24, and Plate XI, figure 13). It is said 1 that the Micmacs of 
Nova Scotia made canoes by plaiting willows and covering the form with 
gum. 
Painting. Painting is known to have existed from the colour seen on 
five objects — red paint on two, purplish red paint on one, and red stain 
on two; also by eight pieces of material, six of them rubbed, and all such 
as on rubbing produce reddish brown or black paint (page 76 and Plate 
XIX, figures 1-4). 
Red paint on a battered spot on each side of a specimen found in 
heap A, apparently the head end of a celt, described on page 48, suggests 
that the object was used to crush paint. The tools used in the process 
are unknown. 
There is red paint on five other specimens, a daub of red, possibly 
iron rust, on one side of a notched adze (page 49 and Plate XIII, figure 3), 
and in the pits on one edge of an object made of antler (page 84 and Plate 
XIX, figure 18), purplish red paint on the upper end of an object made 
of whale rib (pages 19 and Plate VII, figure 13), and there is a spiral 
of red stain around two fragments of points made of bone, described on 
page 30, one of which is illustrated on Plate VI, figure 9. 
Firing. Firing was employed to make clay into pottery (page 46). 
Many fragments of charcoal and some burned patches of ground were 
1 Cf. Gilpin, p. 221; Piers (a), p. 102. 
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