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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV)

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They worship the Gond god, Bura Deo, their own elders serving as priests.

At their performances the men play and dance, wearing hollow anklets of metal with little balls of iron inside to make them tinkle.

The women are dressed like Hindu women and dance without ornaments.

Their instrument is called Tuma or gourd.

It consists of a hollow piece of bamboo fixed horizontally over a gourd.


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