IDNO

P.95717.BCK

Description

A person (local carftsman) firing beads (faience) in the village of Mohenjodaro. In one hand he holds a fan to stoke the hot oven on which the beads are being fired, and in the other long tongs to turn the beads.
Depicted sitting on a mat. His dress marks him out to be a muslim.

Place

S Asia; Pakistan; Sind Province; Larkana District; Mohenjodaro

Cultural Affliation

Muslim

Named Person

Photographer

?Beck, Horace Courthope; ?Archaeological Survey of India

Collector / Expedition

Beck, Horace Courthope

Date

?1930

Collection Name

Beck Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.95713.BCK to LS.95966.BCK were found in box formerly numbered batch 159, now re-numbered C466/.

P.95713.BCK to P.95718.BCK were found in the envelope now numbered C466/1/.
Record updated during research supported by Getty Grant Program One.