fire-baked

Updated: August 20, 2026

They worked with points upon both the plastic and the sun-dried clay, as well as at times upon the fire-baked surface. They illustrate all stages of progress from the most archaic type of ornament the use of dots and straight lines to the most elegant combinations of curves; and, finally, to the delineation of life forms and fanciful conceptions.

William Henry Holmes - Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436