Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.36

c12.36

The evidence from sculptured representations must, of course, be handled with some reserve, but it is at least not incompatible with the knowledge gained from the skulls themselves. Four works of art from Mohenjo-daro can really be taken into consideration, and of these the first is the little bronze statuette of a girl, already referred to in Chapter IV as showing close similarities in hair-dressing and adornment to the clay figurines in the Kulli Culture of South Baluchistan. This girl seems certainly of the Proto-Australoid type, with full lips, and if, as seems likely, she is indeed a representation of a Baluchistan type, one may note in passing that the very dark complexion associated with the Proto-Australoid group would be in accord with the name given to Southern Baluchistan in classical times – Gedrosia, the country of the dark folk.