The Other Side Northwest & Gangetic
c. 1500 – 350 BCE · Northwest & Gangetic

Vedic & post-Vedic

The garment vocabulary the whole site is built from is named here, in text, centuries before the sculpture.

Written
Wrapped lower cloth, breast-band, shoulder cloth inferred
Wrapped lower cloth, breast-band, shoulder cloth
Reconstructed from the garment terms, not from a single object.
Weaver
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Girdle and the tucked fold inferred
Girdle and the tucked fold
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Weaver
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Upper cloth carried across the shoulder inferred
Upper cloth carried across the shoulder
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Field work in the same wrapped cloth inferred
Field work in the same wrapped cloth
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Cultivator
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed

Plates are drawn reconstructions unless a collection is named. Standing flags on the illustrations are declared on the method page.

Written on this period

Longer readings that the plate captions above cannot hold.

Essay
Five Women the Rigveda Names
Note
The Verse About Women’s Minds

Sources

Numbered against the plates above. Where a plate is a reconstruction rather than a photograph, the note says what the drawing was built from.

—Sources for this era are being compiled. Each plate above will carry a numbered footnote to a specific work once they are in.
Earlier
Indus / Harappan
Later
Mauryan