. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . a (IOWA, DAVENIuHl ACADEMY COLLECTION,HEIGHT 11 INCHES*. h lOHIO, FROM SQUIER AND DAVIS, HEIGHT bi INCHESI EXAMPLES OF ROULETTE-DECORATED WARENORTHWESTERN GROUP HOLMES] ROULETTE-DECORATED POTTERY 193 crumbling and shows a rough fracture. A large percentage of sandwas used in tempering. The color is a dark gray-brown, and the entiresurface, with the exception of a narrow band about the base, has beencovered with ornamentation. Two or three distinct implements havebeen used in the work. A part o
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . a (IOWA, DAVENIuHl ACADEMY COLLECTION,HEIGHT 11 INCHES*. h lOHIO, FROM SQUIER AND DAVIS, HEIGHT bi INCHESI EXAMPLES OF ROULETTE-DECORATED WARENORTHWESTERN GROUP HOLMES] ROULETTE-DECORATED POTTERY 193 crumbling and shows a rough fracture. A large percentage of sandwas used in tempering. The color is a dark gray-brown, and the entiresurface, with the exception of a narrow band about the base, has beencovered with ornamentation. Two or three distinct implements havebeen used in the work. A part of the neck oinament was made byrolling back and forth a circular tool, the edge of which was row of indented nodes has been produced uj^on the exterior surfaceof the neck by impressing upon the inside the end of a reed or hollowbone about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. Patterns of bold lines,rather carelessly drawn, cover the body, and seem to have been madeby trailing under pretty strong pressure the smooth point of a stylus—pro])ably the bone or reed implement already suggested. Some ofthe large indentations on the lower part of the n
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