Bowl of Bell Plain type
Mississippian Culture
Southeast
900-1500
Low-fired shell-tempered clay, slipped and burnished
Overall: 2 3/16 × 7 5/16 in. (5.6 × 18.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Horatio Nelson Rust
13.20.815
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Native American: Southeast
Native American
Not on view
Exhibition History
Ancient Native American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Janaury 7-February 9, 1992.
Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibitions; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.
Provenance
Collected by Horatio Nelson Rust (1826-1906), 1876-77 (possibly at either the Spanish Grant site or the Sandy Woods site, Missouri); given to Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1817-1898, Class of 1836, 8th President of Dartmouth College, 1877-1892), in 1881; catalogued by present collection, 1913.
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