Female Figurines

Many of the fan-shaped headdresses were painted black. While the headdress may have been worn as a symbol of distinction, it has been suggested that this type of headdress actually represents black hair stretched over a frame made of bamboo or some … >

These two photographs are of two terracotta figurines, on the left is a female figurine with a scrolled headdress, and on the right is a humped bull with broken horns. In the first image (ASI no. 416/86) the human head on the left is upside down, an… >

Some of the female figurines are very ornate with elaborate headdresses, chokers and/or necklaces, and decorated multiple-strand belts. The fan-shaped headdresses sometimes have panniers or cup-like attachments on either side of the head and depicti… >

Smaller items start getting grouped for the photographs, in photographs from subsequent years we start to see many more objects grouped in each image. [1] Terracotta head, left. Terracotta bull, right. "Harappa offers a greater variety of ani… >

A few female figurines from Harappa have a sort of "tiara" attached to the front of the fan-shaped headdress. Approximate dimensions (W x H x D): 6.0 x 8.7 x 3.9 cm. >

Three are female, the fourth, second from left is of the lower part of a finely modelled figure. Find no. A 127. Right: has a thick braid. Second from right: wears “a distinctive headdress which rises fan like from back of the head… a close fi… >

Other female figurines have a double volute headdress that is usually decorated and sometimes painted black as well. Female figurines are usually depicted standing with their legs pressed together all the way to the feet and sometimes have their han… >

Two terracotta male figurines, nude. Left: Male figurine, nude, published in Vats 1940 (Vo. II), no. 21. Find no. A. 19, 1.7 in high “found at a depth of 2 ft. 6 in. b.s., in Mound F, Great Granary Area, Stratum I” (Vats 1940, p. 296) Vats… >

The "cones" that often decorate figurine headdresses may be reproductions of the small gold cones that have been found at Indus Civilization sites. Similar small gold cones are still used as hair ornaments in South Asia. Approximate dimensions (… >

It is appropriate that Daya Ram Sahni quickly found female figurines on Mound F at Harappa as he made the first incisions. Female figurines greatly outnumber those of men at ancient Indus sites. >