In one the dancers, bending down, make a motion with their hands, as though they were sowing the grain, keeping step with their feet all the time.

Then comes the reaping of the crop and the binding of the sheaves, all done in perfect time and rhythm, and making, with the continuous droning of the voices, a quaint and picturesque performance.

[139] The Karma dance of the Gonds and Oraons is also connected with the crops, and probably was once an enactment of the work of cultivation.

[140] The Bhils danced at their festivals and before battles.

The men danced in a ring, holding sticks and striking them against one another.