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) bottle with direct rim and rounded lip. With an anthropomorphic head in the neck with appliqued ears, nose, eyebrows, eyes and incised mouth. Anthropomorphic body with appliqued arms with incised hands over the flexed legs, appliqued collarbone and three nodes in the back. Flat base with appliqued legs and feet. 10YR 5/2 Grayish Brown.
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.
