Terracotta toys and carts
Little bullock carts, whistles, rattles and animals with nodding heads: the playthings of Indus children.
Indus children played with clay toys: carts with solid wheels drawn by bullocks, animals with movable heads, whistles shaped like birds, rattles, dice and marbles.
The carts are almost identical to the bullock carts still used in the villages of the Punjab and Sindh.
They give a rare glimpse of everyday life in the cities.
More from the Indus
The world's first great public water tank, sealed with bitumen on the citadel of Mohenjo-daro.
A bearded man in a trefoil-patterned cloak, carved in steatite: the face of the Indus civilisation.
A bronze girl, ten centimetres tall, standing with hand on hip, her arm covered in bangles.
A horned figure seated cross-legged among wild animals: the most debated image of the Indus.
The commonest Indus seal: a one-horned bull before a ritual stand, with a line of script.
Long red beads drilled through with stone drills and etched with white designs, prized from the Indus to Ur.
Polished cubes of chert made to one standard from the Ravi to the Arabian Sea.
Two small stone torsos from Harappa so lifelike that their date is still argued.