Six long beads, exhibited in two rows of three each. From mounds F and AB.
Finds nos. that are noted are: A(e) 99, Ab 692, A(f) 1, B 1543, B 770.
Two on either side of the bottom row are of terracotta as they look similar to the one published in Vats 1940, Vol II, Plate CXXXIV. They have been described as “spiral beads” (ibid, p. 408)
Describing the beads of Terracotta Horace Beck reported: “The material of which the terracotta beads are made contains a large amount of mica. It is a form of lateritic clay consists of broken down granite. The particles of mica, although son numerous are very small. With the exception of two … all beads are usually fine red colour of which is probably due to iron.” (ibid, p. 407)
H.C. Beck, 1940. ‘Report on Selected Beads from Harappa’, in M.S. Vats (ed.) Excavations at Harappa: Being an Account of Archaeological Excavations at Harappa Carried out Between the years 1920-21 and 1933-34, pp. 392–431.