Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.126

c11.126

raised above the breasts). There is no attempt at naturalism in the face, which is pinched out of the clay into a fantastic aquiline profile, making an absurd caricature resembling nothing so much as a scared hen, with the eyes made from centrally pierced applied pellets and no indication of the mouth. The breasts are shown on several figurines, but there is no exaggeration to suggest stress on the maternal aspect, and indeed in many examples no indications of breasts at all are given beneath the heavy strings of beads which the figurines are so often represented as wearing; but one figurine is represented as holding two infants in its arms.