The Indus Civilization c10.20

c10.20

It is possible that gamecock fighting was a sport, for, as has been said, two jungle-fowls that appear on an amulet-seal are portrayed in a fighting attitude. If the partridge also was trained to fight it would not be surprising, for even now in Sind this bird is kept in cages for this same purpose. They were frequently brought by their owners to the excavations in cages decorated with blue beads as a protection against the evil eye; their defiant counter-calls were a sound that became associated with Mohenjo-daro. It is quite possible that the little pottery cages that we occasionally find, one of which had a bird at its entrance, are actual models of partridge cages.