 Their staple food is rice, pulse-sauce, and bread. They regularly bathe before they take their morning meals and worship Shiv's emblem the ling with flowers and some of the food they are going to eat.  Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency - Page 468by Bombay (India : State) - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Henry Harkness - 1832 - 204 pages
...round the fire recommence, and on this occasion generally continue till day-break. The men sometimes tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head, like the common people of Malabar, but it is more frequently, like that of their females, allowed •to... | |
 | 1839 - 758 pages
...nothing of hi* tribe previous to their living on the Surrdk. There are only 18 houses of them. The men tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head, unlike the Koomees who knot it just over the forehead. I saw them manufacturing iron into knives, &c.... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 320 pages
...clothing; the men look like women, for they wear petticoats, carry sunshades, are bare-headed, and tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head. s. Colombo is the seat of government and the principal port. It is a pretty town planted with trees,... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...spirits. All smoke tobacco and some smoke hemp. The men wear a top-knot, moustache, and whiskers ; and the women tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head and neither decorate it with flowers nor use false hair. Neither men nor women are neat or clean in... | |
 | 1884 - 652 pages
...spirits. All smoke tobacco and some smoke hemp. The men wear a top-knot, moustache, and whiskers ; and tbe women tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head and neither decorate it with flowers nor use false hair. Neither men nor women are neat or clean in... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 334 pages
...clothing; the men look like women, for they wear petticoats, carry sunshades, are bare-headed, and tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head. s. Colombo is the seat of government and the principal port It is a pretty town planted with trees,... | |
 | 1884 - 782 pages
...The men shave the head except the topknot and the face except the moustache and eyebrows. The »omen tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head without decking ä either with flowers or with false hair. The men's outdoor dress Bebdes a loincloth... | |
 | 1885 - 606 pages
...eat. They do not use animal food or liquor but they have no objection to smoke hemp-flower or ganja. The women tie their hair in a knot at the back of...dress in a waistcloth, a shouldercloth, a coat, and & Deccan Brahman turban, with a pair of shoes or sandals. The women dress in a long Maratha robe and... | |
 | 1885 - 594 pages
...liquor but they have no objection to smoke hemp-flower or ga-nja. The women tie their hair in a knos at the back of the head, but do not wear false hair. Both men aod women wear clean and neat clothes and are fond of gay colonrs. The men dress in a waistcloth, a... | |
 | 1838 - 598 pages
...muslin handkerchief, narrowly folded. The other classes wore their hair in a knot on one of the temples. The women tie their hair in a knot at the back of the neck, and, to increase the size of the knot, they add some false hair. I found the same fashion prevailed... | |
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