The Indus Civilization c7.10

c7.10

With regard to methods of doing the hair, more is known of the styles favoured by the men than of those in vogue among the women, for the head-dresses worn by the female figurines prevent the hair from being seen. A piece of statuary exists, however, in which a woman’s curly hair hangs down in a mass at the back of the head, and a badly damaged head of a small steatite figure has exactly the same arrangement. The figures of goddesses on the amulets sometimes have a plait tied with a bow at the end, and as this is a favourite way of dressing the hair in modern India, it is unlikely that plaits were reserved exclusively for divinities.