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This brush (possibly by association with the idea of painting or colouring) gives us the verb to dye.
Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-975 a: Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola, 1991: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 2: Page 95: Collections in Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.
Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-1087 a: Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola, 1991: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 2: Page 112: Collections in Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.
Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-1919 a: Asko Parpola, B. M. Pande, and Petteri Koskikallio, 2010: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 3,1: Page 81: New material, untraced objects, and collections outside India and Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.
Seal M-1919 is damaged, and one edge of this symbol is missing. However, it seems most probable that the original symbol would have matched Mahadevan's sign number 1552.
Indus Script Sign Number 1552: List of Sign Variants: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.