2006 Winning Entry - George Hastwell School

“What did Indus people wear?”

Perhaps the piece de resistance is the childrens interpretations of headdresses. They created their own designs - sparkling collages on card heads.

The children investigated photos of figurines and jewellery, sketching what they thought actual head dresses had looked like. They looked carefully at the elaborate head dresses and jewellery depicted on terracotta figurines, corroborated by jewellery finds of colourful gemstone beads, gold, copper etc.

They concluded that the Indus people dressed in bright colours, as would most archaeologists, though the only surviving evidence of colourfulness is jewellery!