Title

Red River County, Texas, GTW-509 [TX 142/1]

Creator

Timothy K. Perttula, Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University
Robert Z. Selden Jr., Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFollow

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Creation Date

2020

Description

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: George T. Wright Collection, Red River County, Texas

VESSEL NO.: GTW-509 [TX 142/1], B. R. R.

VESSEL FORM: Bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: shell

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.3

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): N/A

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.8 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.4

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel has upper and lower panels with engraved motifs and elements repeated five times on the upper panel and four times on the lower panel. The engraved motif consists of a single horizontal and vertical scroll line with horizontal and vertical scroll fill zones on either side of the scroll line that are filled with hatched lines. Each of the scroll fill zones ends in an open engraved circle element.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): cf. Barkman Engraved (see Suhm and Jelks 1962:Plate 4a-a’)

Barkman Engraved bowl, GTW-509.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Red River County, Texas, GTW-509 [TX 142/1]" (2020). Index of Texas Archaeology: Barkman Engraved. 26.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-barkmanengraved/26