Is this girl African or not ::confused:: ::confused::
http://archaeology.about.com/od/indusriv...nggirl.htm
http://archaeology.about.com/od/indusriv...nggirl.htm
Quote:Archaeologists in LoveShe was British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler's favorite statuette, as you can tell in this quote from a 1973 television program:
There is her little Baluchi-style face with pouting lips and insolent look in the eye. She's about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's nothing like her, I think, in the world.
John Marshall, one of the excavators at Mohenjo-Daro, described her as a vivid impression of the young... girl, her hand on her hip in a half-impudent posture, and legs slightly forward as she beats time to the music with her legs and feet...
The artistry of this lovely statuette crosses time and space and speaks to us of a seemingly unknowable, but at least fleetingly recognizable past. As author Gregory Possehl says, We may not be certain that she was a dancer, but she was good at what she did and she knew it.