The Papys Bayou Punctated type is a Late Woodland pottery type from the Central Gulf Coast and Manatee regions. The type has similar definition and ware characteristics as Papys Bayou Plain. The type also has similar decoration techniques and forms as the Weeden Island Punctated type.

As described by Willey 1949:419-422, 443:

Definition as a type: Central Gulf Coast and Manatee regions

Ware characteristics: Indistinguishable from the soft gry or buff Biscayne or St. Johns ware. It is temperless, scratches with fingernail, and is 7 to 8 mm. thick. Surfaces usually polished.

Decoration: 

Technique: Fine dot or small triangular puncations impressed into the soft clay of vessel before firing. Use of deep, rounded punctations, large triangular punctations, and hollow-reed punctations for the termination or segmentation of lines. Occasional use of fine incision but only as subsidiary elements in the punctated designs.

Design: Basically curvilinear and tends to emphasize constrasting areas of plain polished surface versus punctated fields. Design often brought out negatively by punctating only in the backgrounds. Continuous meanders, scrolls, lobate forms, leaflike forms, circles, and triangles are usual elements. These elements are outlined with lines of close-spaced punctations and are often filled with close or wide-spaced punctations. The various geometrical elements are usually connected by lines of fine punctations, integrating all parts of the design into an over-all composition. As in Weeden Island Incised, the bird idea may be expressed in a highly stylized and conventionalized form. Relief modeling and applique techniques are used to delineate effigy features, usually bird heads. (Pl. 25, g, h; pl. 27, a, d, e, g, h; pl. 28, a, c-h.) Conception of design is excellent and seems well confined within the limits of a clearly understood style. (See fig. 40)

Distribution: Often confined to upper portions of exterior vessel surface but sometimes extends over most of vessel exterior except base. Also applied to upper sides of triangular rim projections on bowl forms. 

Form:

Total vessel: Flattened-globular bowl most common. Simple jars, open bowls, short-collared jars, cylindrical beakers.

Rim: Commonly thickened at orifice. Incurved, outslanted, straight walls, depending upon vessel shape. Frequent use of exterior folds which may be underlined or encircled with a row or two of punctations (fig. 41)

Lip: Both flat and rounded. Use of encircling row of punctations.

Base: Rounded or flat.

Geographical range and chronological position: Central Coast and Manatee region. Also extends eastward into peninsular Florida as a minority type. Probably both Weeden Island I and II, but more common in the later period.