Bell Plain (highly polished) pottery type -- Bell Plain is prevalent at sites along the Mississippi River in Arkansas. It has finely crushed shell temper, a well-polished to highly polished surface, and varies in color from shades of gray to buff to orange (pp 10-12, Hathcock, Roy).
Curatorial Remarks:
Bell Plain (Phillips 1970:58-61) polished bottle with anthropomorphic head with appliqued head-dress and eyes, nose, eyebrows, mouth and perforated ears. Opening on the back of the head with direct rim and flattened lip. Anthropomorphic body with flexed arms and legs and incised fingers and toes. Flat base. 10YR 4/1 Dark Gray.
Phillips, Philip. Archaeological Survey in the lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Vol. 60. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1970.
