The Indus Civilization c7.11

c7.11

Men had varied styles of hair-dressing. The steatite statue of a deity wears his hair parted in the middle, and the short locks at the back of the head are kept tidy by a woven fillet (Pl. H, 2). Other statues show it closely gathered up in a bun, after the fashion of ancient Sumer, certain folds in the bun suggesting that the hair was first plaited (Pl. H, 1 b). Several clay figures have the hair coiled in a ring on the top of the head and in similar rings concealing the ears; the latter arrangement is also found in Sumerian statuary. Yet another fashion is a plaited lock carried outwards from the back of the head in a large loop which turned in again and was secured by a fillet. A clay figure of a crawling infant with curly hair has been found at Mohenjo-daro, and it is quite probable that some of the people, at any rate, had curly or wavy hair.