498 Roree in Khypoor. [No. 114. 



The dress of ladies of the Ameer's Haram costs about the same, and 

 they wear also a silk Uorungshahee of Persian or Toorkish manufacture, 

 worth 30 or 40 rupees. The best Uorungshahee are usually red and 

 studded with emeralds, pearls, and other precious stones arranged in pat- 

 terns. There are some in the Palace valued at 2,000 rupees, and Meers 

 Roostum and AH Morad have each one said to be worth 5,000 or 6,000 

 rupees. 



So strong is the women's passion for jewels and ornaments, that even the 

 poorest lay by a trifle out of their scanty earnings to gratify it, and I 

 recollect seeing a female at work in a field at Sukkur covered with filthy 

 rags, who had ornaments on her person worth twenty rupees. A triple 

 amulet of silver round her neck cost alone six rupees. 



The gold and silver ornaments worn in Khyrpoor and Moghulee, are 

 more remarkable for their weight and number than delicacy of finish. 



The Chotee Phool is a medallion for the back of the head. 



Tiko. A large oval forehead ornament of gold or silver, painted three 

 or four colours usually red, green, and yellow. A similar ornament is 

 worn in India by shop-keepers wives and prostitutes, but not by peasants. 

 The peasant women of Sind wear the tiko at feasts and holidays, 

 and fix it on the middle of the forehead by gold or silver chains (daonree), 

 which are brought across the forehead and fastened with hooks behind 

 the ears, or to the crown of the head. A gold tiko cost 32 rupees and a 

 silver one 1| rupee. 



Punra from seven to sixteen ornaments worn in the rim of the ear with 

 pearls or silver beads. 



Nusbee worn near the orifice of each ear. 



Joomuk suspended before the ear to cover the orifice. 



Chupla gold or silver wires set with about a hundred small turquoise 

 stones worn in the middle of the rim of the ear. 



Boolu a small ring set with pearls worn through the cartilage that 

 divides the nostrils. 



Nut ring generally set with three pearls worn in the right nostril. It 

 is always gold, and the lowest half swells into a crescent form. The gold 

 costs from 5 to 9 rupees. A poor woman will have a nose ring worth ten 

 rupees of which the gold costs five and a pair of pearls five. Country 

 people have a cumbrous description of nose ornament resembling in shape 

 and size the two handed instrument used in India to cut betel nut. 



Kundhee necklace of gold or silver beads strung on silk threads and 

 falling below the bosom and fastened to an angular barrel-shaped orna- 

 ment (pootlo.) 



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