Mohenjo-Daro: Pre-Maurya or Maurya terra cotta female figurine with foreign ethnic features
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Herbert E, Budek Films and mounted transparencys, Santa Barbara, California
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One of the sub-settlements of the Indus River civilization was located on the upper part of the river at Maurya and remained an important site long after the major cities at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro had perished, At Maurya, the first empire would be established around the third century B.C. Exemplary in our slide is an 'archaic' figurine of the mother-goddess type showing the symbolic exaggeration of breasts and thighs: two conventions which continue in the folk art of India for centuries, Interesting is the degree to which the face has been treated with detail while the rest of the body remains simple and unadorned, From the unusual ethnic features on the figure's face, certain scholars have chosen to believe that here is evidence of the movements of ethnic strains across India, migrating toward China from the Near East for example, This figure may even represent one of the Negroid strains still found in South India today,
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Indus Valley Pottery and Sculpture, ceramics, Mohenjo-Daro, mounted transparency set
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Basham Collection
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1968
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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
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