COSTUME & CLOTHING

IN HISTORY
Global Connections & Case
Studies
 MESOPOTAMIA
&
THE INDUS VALLEY
Indus river Longest
river in Pakistan
Ancient Sanskrit name
Sinhu
Civilization aka Sindhu
Sarasvati
Like Egypt, rivers =
civilization
3300 1500 BCE
THE ANCIENT RUINS OF
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION'

HARAPPA

Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro
Discovered 1920s
First evidence of
unsuspected
prehistoric Indus
Valley civilization.
Sophisticated culture
 Housed 40,000
people
Sophisticated water
systems
Grain currency and
economic foundation
 Mother- goddess stone
lamp
Found at Mohenjo-Daro
Indus religion(s) may
have shaped Hinduism
Hinduism possibly
oldest living religion in
the world
MESOPOTAMIA
&
THE INDUS VALLEY
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Sargon of Akkad
2334 2279 BCE
Records of ships from
Meluhha Possible
Mesopotamian name or
another Indus name for
Indus Valley
 Evidence for Indus
trade in
Mesopotamia?
Clay Seals
Pottery
 Trade & The Indus
Valley
Sea shells found from
over 490 miles away
Established weights
and measures for
trade
Cities survived by
trade in and out of
the valley specifically
Mesopotamia

Polished stone bracelet from Mohenjo-Daro.

Jewel/stones likely imported
CLOTHING
EVIDENCE

Pottery
Seals
Statues
Jewelry
Fabric
remains
Modern reconstruction of Indus Life making goods for tra
Preserved silk
fibers
Clay Bead fragment with
impression of woven textiles
Priest King
Bust
Discovered 1927
Wears: fillet, arm
band, patterned
robe
Clay figure of woman with,
head dress flowers, and
baskets
The Dancing
Girl
What are these?
Bangles
Gold and agate jewelry
 INDUS VALLEY SOURCES
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/indus_valley/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/history/history_1.shtml#h2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/india/gal_india_north_02.shtml

Harappa.com
http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html
http://a.harappa.com/content/ancient-textiles-indus-valley-region
 THE OTTOMANS
&
EUROPE
14TH 15TH CENTURY

1324 -1326 Ottoman Capture

Bursa
1453 Constantinople falls to
the Ottomans
Byzantines and Ottomans
influencing each other for
decades
http://www.iosminaret.org/vol-5/issue4/Istanbul.php
Justinian I, 6th-century mosaic at the Basilica of Sultan Mehmed II smelling a rose, from the Saray
San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. Albums, c. 1480 CE
Soliman Magnificant caftan Fragment of 16th Century Turkish
1520 Damask
Seated Scribe, gouache and pen with ink on Sultan Ahmed III 1703 -1730 and two gentlemen
paper, by Gentile Bellini, 147980. wearing
An Egyptian agricultural worker (fellah) wearing a
traditional jellaba (gallibiya).
Haik
Turkish woman wearing long anteri (coat) over
patterned chalvar (trousers) and backless
slippers, c. 1618; in the British Museum, London.
Muslim woman wearing a yashmak and chador, in Femme du peuple, coloured
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, 1990.
 OTTOMAN EMPIRE SOURCES
Encylopedia Britanica Ottoman Dress
http://www.britannica.com/topic/dress-clothing#toc14026
Art of the Ottomans before 1600
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/otto1/hd_otto1.htm