Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.84

c11.84

The animal ornament at Nundara (and to a less extent at Nal) offers a very interesting point of comparison with the Kulli Culture. On the Nundara pots the animals (mainly lions, but once an ox) are painted with curious horizontally banded stripes down their forequarters and loins, and this same peculiar trick occurs not on the painted pots, but on the painted animal figurines in the Kulli Culture (Fig. 8). The use of broad bands of red paint at the top and bottom of the main ornamental zone of a vessel is again an arrangement common to Amri ware and that of Kulli, and the Nal ‘canister’ is comparable with the squat bottle form known in Kulli-Mehi sites (Fig. 6). But the use of the *pipal*-leaf motif, and that of intersecting circles, at Nal must again be related to Harappā, and so must the faience beads, the whitened steatite stamp-seal and perhaps the stone weight. The polychrome pottery of Mohenjo-daro and Harappā is vaguely comparable to Nal, but no more; the single sherd from Chanhu-daro, however, with its use of a yellow background, may be rather more to the point.