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बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
Aronai is the Bodo traditional cloth of great significance.
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बर' BodoCategory
People, Dress and Ornaments, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
The Bodo weavers used throw shuttle and fly shuttle looms. The shuttle makhu is thrown across the shed by the hand. The loom is fitted to a vertical post made of bamboo or wood and it is fixed to the ground.
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बर' BodoCategory
Flora and Fauna, Dress and Ornaments, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
'Indi Phitwb'- the eri cocoon are open-mouthed, as the silk filament is not wrapped as in mulberry, muga and tassar. Hence, the eri cocoons cannot be reeled but spun like cotton. The shape, size and color of the endi cocoon vary on the host plant leaves.
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बर' BodoCategory
Dress and Ornaments, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
Starching is the process where yarn/thread produced is wound on a spool to make a wrap. In order to make the thread stronger it is boiled with rice or flour and water. The yarn or wrap is taken out from the water and dried up in the sun. 
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Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and Ornaments, Traditional Practices
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
These are only worn by women and usually given to the women at marriage. 
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Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
A flat ring metal with a stylized flower, three pieces of metal as decoration, and a hook for the lobe of the ear worn by women.
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बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
An open metal bangles worn by women
Digital Heritage
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बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
The bangle is slightly irregularly formed ring made of a length of sheet silver where the pattern of the outside of the ring has been hammered in diagonal lines of two grooves passed by a slight chisel, changing with a line of 6 to 7 square holes
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Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
A necklace worn by women made of one big coin and 62 small 4 annas coins (taka/rupee)
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Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and OrnamentsSummary
A metal bracelet worn by Bodo women.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
People, Dress and OrnamentsSummary
A pair of wooden sandals