_Holly Fine Engraved_ type is represented by 10 sherds (Fig. 5, A, B),
one from a bottle, five from shallow bowls, and four uncertain.
Indicated height of bowl rims is 2.5 to 3 cm., vertical or mildly
outsloping. Colors are tan, gray and brown, no black polished. Two of
the sherds are bone tempered. Wall thickness is 6 to 9 mm. The engraved
lines are usually diagonal on the bowls and seven have excised
triangles.
_Hickory Fine Engraved_ type includes two whole vessels, both bottles,
and nine sherds from four bowls, one bottle, two small jar or cup forms,
and two of uncertain form. The first bottle (Fig. 4, C) is 26 cm. high,
14 cm. in body diameter, has an evenly tapered spout and shouldered
body. Three lightly engraved lines encircle the shoulder. The second
bottle, which also occurred with Burial 1, has the spout missing but
body intact. The body is 12.6 cm. high, 15.2 cm. in diameter, and has
eight engraved lines encircling the upper body area. Both of these
bottles are gray in color, with black fire clouds, and are clay
tempered. Eight of the sherds of this type (Fig. 5, E, G) are tan to
gray with black areas, while the ninth (Fig. 5, F) is black and
polished, with cross-engraved decoration. No other _Hickory_ sherd is
polished. Temper is clay-grit or sherd, one with bone. The bowls appear
to have vertical or outsloping rims, with walls 5 to 7 mm. thick, but
one sherd is from an incurvate bowl, 4 mm. thick. Five of the sherds
have horizontally engraved lines, 4 to 9 mm. apart; three have diagonal
parallel lines and one has cross diagonals. The latter is a rim sherd
and the rounded lip has transverse notching 7-9 mm. apart (Fig. 5, F).
[Illustration: Fig. 5. Engraved Sherds. A, B, _Holly Fine Engraved_.
C, D, _Holly_ or _Hickory Fine Engraved_. E-G, _Hickory Fine
Engraved_; H, Untyped zig-zag engraved. I-P, _Carmel Engraved_. Q,
Untyped with spurred engraved lines. R, Probable _Maddox Engraved_.]
Six sherds could be either _Holly_ or _Hickory Fine Engraved_ (Fig. 5,
C, D). One is from the top of a bottle spout, another from a bottle
shoulder, two are bowl sherds, and the other forms are doubtful. The
bottle sherds have horizontally engraved lines, the other four are
diagonal. One bowl sherd, light in surface color, is only 4 mm. thick.
The surface colors of both _Holly_ and _Hickory Fine Engraved_ types at
this site are more like the later (Phase 2 and 3) periods at the Davis
Site; the earlier vessels at Davis were preponderantly dark in surface
color.
Carmel Engraved Type
(Fig. 5, I-P)
This is presented as a new type, as it is a major engraved type at this
site—with 17 sherds, of which 11 are rim sherds—and has been found with
Alto pottery at five other sites in northwestern Louisiana. There were
five _Carmel Engraved_ sherds from the Colbert Site; four each from
Greer, Mounds Plantation, and Marston sites; and three from Chamarre
Lake Site. The description is based on the Smithport collection.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURE: Coiled.
PASTE
_Temper_: Clay-grit or ground sherd; bone in 2 of 17 sherds.
_Texture_: Compact, generally fine, occasionally coarse.
_Color_: Shades of gray from light to almost black, often on same
sherd (fire clouds); buff, tan and reddish-brown. Nearly half
of the Smithport sample has reddish-brown exteriors and
interiors. Cores may be same color as exterior, sometimes
darker.
_Surface Finish_: Smoothed exteriors and interiors, a few with fair
polish, none highly polished.
FORM
_Wall Thickness_: 5 to 7 mm., uniform.
_Lip_: Rounded, usually unmodified; occasional thinning.
_Base_: Uncertain, probably mildly convex, circular.
_Vessel Shape and Size_: So far as presently known, open and
carinated bowls only. Rims are 3 to 7 cm. in height, about
equally divided between 3-5 and 5-7 cm. range, from an obtuse
angle at the junction of base and rim. The bases appear to be
shallow; the rims mildly excurvate, or direct and slanted
outward. A few appear to be vertical. Curvatures suggest
diameters of 20-30 cm.
DECORATION
_Treatment_: Engraving.
_Designs_: Effected with heavy engraving on exteriors of rims only.
Curving, wide bands outlined by parallel single engraved
lines, with transverse, widely spaced lines producing a ladder
effect. Usually two of such bands form arcs or meanders, with
undecorated bands of similar width between them (Fig. 5, I-K).
Occasionally one or more engraved lines flank the engraved
bands or bisect the intervening plain band. Some sherds (Fig.
5, M, N, P) have straight instead of curving bands, but
otherwise seem to fit into the type.