Bead Making in Ancient Sind

BY THE EXCAVATIONS in 1935-36 of the Expedition of the American School of Indic and Iranian Studies and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at Chanhu-daro in the Nawabshah District of Sind, India, remains of the same culture have been revealed as in the ancient Indus cities Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. All three cities were populated by people of this Harappa culture during the period 3000-2500 B. C., and there is no evidence as yet of any previous occupation of these sites.1 A few unfinished beads were found during the excavations at Mohenjo-daro. Their number was so small, however, as to suggest that though bead-making was a craft practised in that city it was not carried on to any great extent, unless it were in parts of the city that have not yet been explored.2