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Ancient Indus Valley civilization bangles related material.

Female Figurines

Fat women figurines with turban-like headdress and appliqué ornaments. Bangles are worn on both wrists and upper arms, ankle bracelets and a choker probably represent beaded ornaments. The right hand is held to the mouth and the left hand clutches t… >

Terra cotta bangles, Mohenjo-daro

Many of the terra cotta bangles were originally painted with black or red designs. Such ornaments are found in the thousands and may have been worn, broken and discarded much as glass bangles are used today throughout the subcontinent. >

Ancient Indus Bangles

Two copper/bronze bangles, one from Harappa and the other from Mohenjo-daro. The bangles were made from a round hammered rod bent in a full circle. The space between the ends of the bangle would be pried apart to slip it over the wrist. Dimension… >

Terracotta bangle fragments

  • Harappa Terracotta bangle fragments

Terracotta bangle fragments decorated with red trefoils outlined in white on a green ground from late Period 3C deposits in Trench 43. This image shows both sides of the two fragments (H98-3516/8667-01 & H98-3517/8679-01). >

Detail of terracotta bangle, Harappa

Detail of terracotta bangle with red and white trefoil on a green background (H98-3516/8667-01 from Trench 43). Trefoil motifs are carved on the robe of the so-called "priest-king" statuette from Mohenjo-daro and are also known from contemporary sit… >

Excavating a red stoneware bangle

Randall Law and Shamoon excavating a red stoneware bangle in Period 3C levels just below the surface in Trench 43. >

Kot Diji phase terracotta bangles

Kot Diji phase terracotta bangles include many styles and incised and painted decorations. Grey bangles were produced in kilns with a reducing atmosphere and red bangles were fired in an oxidizing atmosphere >

Kot Diji phase street debris

The Kot Diji phase streets were filled with debris, including potsherds, charcoal, ash, animal bones, and occasional bangles and steatite beads. >

Female figurine with painted ornaments from Harappa

Some of the ornaments on female figurines were accentuated with white and/or black pigment, and some ornaments were completely rendered in pigment. One female figurine has a choker, a necklace, and bangles on the left upper and lower arm, all painte… >

TC bangles, section A (Bakkar Buthi)

TC bangles, section A (Bakkar Buthi). >

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