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Malleating with ribbed paddles produced effects resembling the scarifi- 
cations, which can be distinguished from them only by the absence of 
longitudinal striae in the bottom of the grooves, and by the more uniform 
widths of the grooves and ridges. On many fragments the grooves cross 
each other (Plate II, figure 3). In some cases the general effect of this 
kind of malleating is rather patchy. 
Chequered markings, probably produced with paddles with a griddle- 
like surface, occur on many fragments, and in some cases cover nearly the 
entire pot. In some the depressions are more roundish than square. Cheq- 
uered surface markings can be seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate II, 
figure 6; Plate XII, figure 9; and on the partly restored pot in Plate XVI. 
Pottery with chequered markings has a wide distribution, being found as 
far south as Florida. 
Comparatively few pieces show impressions made with cord- wound 
malleating tools, but a few pots seem to have been almost entirely covered 
with these impressions. Some of the fragments are shown in Plate II, 
figure 4; Plate VI, figure 1; Plate VII, figure 6; and Plate XV. 
None of the pottery from later Neutral sites shows textile texturing, 
but it occurs on Iroquoian pottery elsewhere in Ontario, and has a wide 
distribution in eastern North America. 
A few pieces are both scarified and chequered, and a few others are 
both chequered and cord-marked. 
Some impressions do not seem to have been made either by scarifying 
or with cord-wound tools. Their appearance rather suggests that the 
malleating fools consisted of paddles wound either with grass leaves, grass 
stems, thin buckskin thongs, or other pliable, but not twisted, materials. 
On many pots most of the marks left by the malleating tools have been 
effaced by subsequent smoothing. 
A few fragments, some of which are seen in Plate II, figure 5, and 
Plate III, figures 1, 9, and 14, bear narrow, irregularly spaced, linear 
depressions, which were perhaps made accidentally with the corners of a 
malleating paddle. 
As stated above, most of the pottery was decorated. In dealing 
with decoration here the writer will confine himself to the purely techno- 
logical aspect of the subject and leave the aesthetic side to be discussed in the 
section on Decorative Art. 
The following processes seem to have been employed in pottery 
decoration: modelling, punching, impressing, stamping, trailing, incising, 
and embossing. Special tools need be used in only a few of these opera- 
tions; the kinds are suggested by the impressions and markings. 
Modelling to produce aesthetic effects can be seen on many of the 
pots, especially on the piece of a rim with ornamentation in relief, illustrated 
in Plate V, figure 4. 
Punching round, oval, half round, triangular, and square, more or less 
deep, depressions was done with variously shaped tools. Round and oval 
depressions, made with finely pointed or obtusely pointed sticks or bones, 
probably some of the tools considered as awls, are seen on the fragments 
illustrated in Plate III, figures 5, 11, and 15; Plate XIII, figure 8; and Plate 
XVII, figure 20. The round impressions on the fragments seen in Plate 
