SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Lester Bros. Place, 1929

CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave in a Caddo cemetery exposed along a levee that had been dynamited, 1929.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-881

VESSEL NO.: V-151

NON-PLASTICS: bone and hematite/ferruginous sandstone

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.5 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 4.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.9

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 7.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.5

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.22 liters

DECORATION: The rim is plain on this carinated bowl. The body has four sets of nested engraved semi-circles that begin with a central hooked arm element. The sets of engraved semi-circles are divided by large excised/hatched upper and lower pendant triangles (El Dorado 2 pattern, Schambach and Miller 1984:Figure 11-6).

TYPE: Avery Engraved, var. Graves

Avery Engraved, var. Graves carinated bowl (5425-881).