. Bulletin. Ethnology. pip. ?fo^'2^5Y' JOII^ H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN—^MILLER 177. Figure 34.—Positive impression of textile obtained by the use of latex on the surface of sherd from Clarksville site, 44Mcl4. (See Holmes, 1896, fig. 23.) The loom illustrated not only has an attacliment to the tree at one end, but the other is held firmly in position by the weaver's left hand leav- ing the right free to manipulate the weft elements into position across the warp. Apparently two loom types were known and used by the aborigines of southern Virginia, as indicated by drawings and the various records
. Bulletin. Ethnology. pip. ?fo^'2^5Y' JOII^ H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN—^MILLER 177. Figure 34.—Positive impression of textile obtained by the use of latex on the surface of sherd from Clarksville site, 44Mcl4. (See Holmes, 1896, fig. 23.) The loom illustrated not only has an attacliment to the tree at one end, but the other is held firmly in position by the weaver's left hand leav- ing the right free to manipulate the weft elements into position across the warp. Apparently two loom types were known and used by the aborigines of southern Virginia, as indicated by drawings and the various records of the early settlers. A series of fabrics has been determined from a large number of textile-impressed and fabric-marked sherds. We also found a number of sherds bearing the impressions of coiled basketry. This type dis- plays large corrugations (fig. 34), in which the impressions of parallel elements are to be seen. By taking latex impressions of the surface of such sherds, it was defuiitely established that this type of basket existed throughout the basin. Bushnell (1935, p. 50) pointed out that coiled baskets were thought to be unknown to historic Siouan and Algonquian tribes of Virginia and that they were evidently made and used by groups which preceded them and by whom "the early earthen- ware vessels had likewise been ; He, too, found fragments of pots bearing basket impressions which he attributed to the "oldest type of pottery found on the ; The type to which he referred is more likely what the writer has termed "fabric-marked" of the type found at the Hyco site (44Ha7). Ashley (1932) found basket-impressed sherds at Etowah and Carters Quarters in Georgia. There is a time differential here as these sites are much later than those of southern Virginia and belong to the Mississippian culture. Harrington (1922), on the other hand, found in the Ozark Bluff Dweller sites of Arkansas and Mississippi several specimens of coiled
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