A very popular figurine is that of a Mother - goddess represented as having an elaborate fanlike head-dress and wearing a short skirt. Figurines of the bull, which seems to have been considered sacred in seal.

Mohenjo-Daro Storage Urns

   People stored wheat in large pottery jars, which they buried in the floor of their houses. Large bricks used for building, pottery jars and even wheat grains storage are among the exhibits.

Mohenjo-Daro Deities

    The Mother goddess is prominent among the human forms of terracotta objects while the animal forms include the humped bull, the rhinoceros and the unicorn. The predominance of ritual objects had led to the view that Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were ancient ceremonial and pilgrimage centres like Mecca or Benaras.

Mohenjo-Daro Seals

    The Indus Valley people had a hieroglyphic, ideographic or pictographic writing, which they engraved on square stone seals. The Indus writing is said to be the parent of the Brahmi script from which most of the scripts of the present day Indian languages have had their origin.