Page 11 - Apr-Jun 2018

VOL. 15 No. 2
Tryst With Tribes Did you know the

land of Seven
Sisters have
colorful tribes
TODA APATAMI and amazing
homes.
Nor theast ern
The small rural tribal
India is home
community of Toda
to around 200
lives in the Nilgiri
tribes with
hills of Tamil Nadu.
various kinds of
They live in small
traditional homes.
hamlets made of
The homes of the
bamboo and mud
Apatami tribe in
called mund. Devoid
Arunachal Pradesh
of windows, they
are an extension
are rectangular in plan, with a barrel-vaulted roof that
of nature. All the homes engage with the
reaches down to the ground. To protect the family from
environment directly, the building materials
the weather and wild animals, the entrance of the hut is
esst.t.
are taken from the local forest.
small. Dried grass is used for the thatched exterior. The
front portion of the hut is decorated with the Toda art rrrrt t t ttt
form, a kind of rock mural painting.
TRIBES OF JHARKHAND
M. Tanusri, IX E, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School Vidyashram,
Jubilee Hills Hyderabad The houses in Jharkhand are made of mud, stones, dung,
bamboo, and husk. The houses are rain resistant. The roofs
are made of bamboo and husk. Each sub caste and tribal
DID YOU KNOW? group has a unique traditional way of decorating homes.
For example:
Some members from the Jenu Kuruba tribe have been nn Oraon comb-cum painting – Images of cattle feeding,
living on trees in Karnataka for about 65 years. These tree ee geometric forms, fauna, fl ora are commonly used in this
u u ulllyy y y
houses are about 50 to 60 feet high! The tribals skillfully art form.
climb up the trees to their home. It also protects them Ganju art – Characterised by images of animals and
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from marauding elephants in the wild. It’s time they get plants.
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their community land rights.
Kurmi art – A unique
N. Vaishnavi, VIII A, Vidyaa Vikas Matric Hr. Sec. School, Pudukko ai style of ‘sohrai’ where
outlines are scratched
onto the surface of a
GONDS wall with nails.

Vinit Ganesh Mishra, IX
The Gonds C, Motilal Nehru Public
are one of the School, Jamshedpur; Dipti Illustration by: Anubha Mishra, IX D, All Saints
Mahto, Vandana Jalan, V, Sr. Sec. School, Ajmer
largest tribal Bridgeford School, Ranchi
groups in the
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houses are
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bigger than Illustration by: Yashashvi Jha, VI D, Delhi Public Yo
other tribal School, Sec-45, Gurgaon diffi cult it would be to
homes. Made build an entire home, but
up of mud and thatch, they have a large courtyard that you can always make one
is surrounded with rooms also called as kurai. Their with paper! Try making
kitchen is called Mudhat. They also have a room for them using this DIY Huts
worshipping their god, usually east-facing. of India Educational Activity Kit on houses of Jharkhand,
Gujarat, Assam and many more.

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