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Community
बर' BodoCategory
Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
दौला(Doula) is one of the beautiful ear ornaments mainly worn by the old women of the bodo community.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Food, Traditional PracticesSummary
खारै सथा (kharwi sotha) is an organic alkali made from the rhizome and mature pseudostem of banana. The best suitable banana for this preparation is खारै सथा is a seeded banana plant.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Flora and Fauna, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
थना (Thona) it is a type of bowl made with banana pseudostem leaf sheaths, the pseudostem of banana is cut into desirable length which is then split and each of the leaf sheaths of pseudostem are removed carefully.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Flora and Fauna, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
थनाखं(Thonakhong) is a plate made from pseudostem leaf sheaths of banana.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and Ornaments, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
The hand-woven mulberry silk fabric is very popular among the Bodo womenfolk and used in weddings and ceremonies. They create different designs of their liking on it and there are different qualities. The best qualities are in great demand.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
Hasini is an agricultural tool to weed grasses and prepare the earth for sowing or planting new saplings. It is also used to gather pieces of dry straw and roots of weeds before burning/disposing them. It is made of wood & it has a long bamboo handle. 
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and Ornaments, Tools and Instruments, Traditional PracticesSummary
Indi shawl, made from mulberry silk, is very popular among the Bodos & used in winter and special occasions. It is traditionally prepared with the help of handloom. Although readymade shawls are also imported, a Bodo woman would prefer the local made one.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Tools and Instruments, History, Traditional PracticesSummary
Wooden-mud-plastered house is very common among the Bodo community. The walls are made of bamboo and then plastered with mud. Some people may whitewash the walls but many don't. The roofs may be either thatched or tin, but thatched roofs are hardly seen.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and Ornaments, Traditional PracticesSummary
Golden silk thread is made from the cocoons of mulberry silkworms. The cocoons are first boiled in water and then reeled with the help of a simple tool called 'thaokhri'. It is then spun with the help of a spinning wheel, thickened and dried.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Dress and Ornaments, Traditional PracticesSummary
Reeling of silk from mulberry silk is a common practice of Boro womenfolk. The practice of rearing silkworm and reeling of silk give economic relief to some families. But, at present, it has been a challenge for the womenfolk to thrive in this business.
Digital Heritage
Community
बर' BodoCategory
Food, Traditional PracticesSummary
Rice cake is prepared from rice-flour with some ingredients such as sesame, fresh coconut powder, sugar, jaggery, etc. It is steamed with the help of a long necked-pot. It is usually prepared during festivals; but some people have commercialized it.