Cross incising ([Fig. 7], M, N), which is called Harrison Bayou Incised (from the Harrison Bayou Site on Caddo Lake) in central Louisiana, but is included in Dunkin Incised in eastern Texas (Suhm and Jelks, 1962: Pl. 19), is present on nine sherds from Smithport. They are clay tempered, light to dark gray in color, with smoothed surfaces. The incisions vary from narrow and closely placed to firm, wide lines.
Curvilinear incising is present on two sherds. These resemble curvilinear incising from the Sanson Site in central Louisiana which has been tentatively termed Neild Incised.
C. Punctated and Punctated-Incised Types
Fig. 7. Incised Sherds. A-L, Dunkin Incised (note C, a large sherd with typical design; punctations with lines on E, F, L: rectangular design on I). M, N, Harrison Bayou Incised. O-R, Diagonally incised rim sherds, probably Dunkin Incised.
Pennington Punctated-Incised type is represented by 36 sherds ([Fig. 8], A-F). Most of these derive from open carinated bowls with excurvate rims which are 4 to 7 cm. in height, but a few seem to be rims of recurved jars. Eight are chocolate brown in color, others tan, gray and brown-black. The paste is firm, hard in all but two sherds, with smoothed but not polished surfaces. Two sherds are tempered with bone, the others with clay-grit or sherd. Wall thickness is in the range of 5 to 9 mm., most specimens being 6 to 7 mm. The punctations are consistently placed in fields which are outlined by single deeply incised lines; the fields are in diagonal bands, diamonds or triangles. The punctations and incised lines are bold and the 36 sherds include punctations made with a pointed or round-tipped tool in 23 instances, comma-shaped in four, square ([Fig. 8], E) in five, and triangular in four.
Eleven sherds show the hybrid Pennington-Crockett design described in the Davis report (Newell and Krieger, 1949: 101). Shapes and paste characteristics are described above; two sherds are soft, chocolate brown in color. One has an incurving rim and a suspension hole ([Fig. 8], I). The bordering incised line is curved ([Fig. 8], G-I); otherwise these sherds do not differ from the Pennington type. Seven have rounded punctations, two are comma-shaped, one rectangular, and one square.
Another group of 19 sherds shows zone punctations which differ in certain respects from the typical Pennington described above and possibly are nearer to Rhinehart Punctated (Ford, 1951: 83-85). These 19 sherds ([Fig. 8], J-O) have the same range of paste and coloration; five are of the softer chocolate brown ware. Rim and body sherds are represented and in only one instance ([Fig. 8], O) is it certain that the rim is from an open carinated bowl as are the Pennington sherds. One heavy sherd ([Fig. 8], J) which is 12 mm. thick, suggests a globular vessel which narrows at the neck and recurves to upright at the rim. Another sherd includes the lower rim area which is decorated with zoned punctations and incisions, and the adjoining upper body which is plain. Characteristic of this group is the alternation of punctated and incised fields, or the outlining of punctated zones by multiple incised lines. The punctations are triangular in three instances, square in one, comma-shaped in six, round or oval in five, small pits in three, and crescentic in one.
Fig. 8. Punctated Sherds. A-F, Pennington Punctated-Incised. G-I, Pennington-Crockett hybrid (I has incurving rim, hole for suspension). J-O, Pennington or Rhinehart Punctated (N has triangular punctations between horizontal lines in Coles Creek tradition). P, Similar to Dupree Incised but shape suggests Bossier sherd. Q, R, Random punctations.