![]() ![]() ![]() He is known to have reacted with surprise when he saw this statuette. John Marshall, the archeologist at Mohenjo-daro who found the figure, described the figure as "a 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". There's nothing like her, I think, in the world. ![]() A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. 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. In 1973, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favourite statuette: Second bronze statuette of a girl, now displayed at Karachi Museum, Pakistan.
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