polishing-stones

Updated: June 18, 2025

Trowels, paddles, stamps, polishing-stones, and other implements were used in finishing. Baskets were also used as molds, and pliable fabrics, such as nets and coarse cloths, were employed in some sections. The methods of baking have apparently not been described in much detail by early writers, but the ware itself bears the marks of those simple processes known to our modern tribes.

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