Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.61

c11.61

In addition, striking representations of animals occur - in Nundara ware there are animals, probably lions, fishes, and birds represented, the bodies often being filled in with red paint. A single representation of an ox occurs (at Hor-Kalat: Fig. 8, bottom centre), and heart-shaped motifs, based on the forms of the leaves of the pipal tree, also occur, and may owe their origin, as we shall see, to influence from the Indus Valley. The pipal, or sacred fig, was accounted a holy tree in prehistoric India and still retains its sanctity today. At Rohel-jo-Kund, Pandi Wahi, Kerchat, and other sites in Sind decorative motifs, such as animals or rows of stylized ibex heads, which appear to be derived from the Kulli Culture, appear alongside the normal Nal ornament.