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Headdresses or Hair?

Three female figurines with painted fan-shaped headdresses from Harappa. Could these headdresses have represented black hair stretched over a frame of bamboo or other material?

See also Gender and the Indus People: An Unusual Male Figurine and Harappan Female Figurine.

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