296 Notes on a forest race called Puttooas or Juanga. [No. 4. 



to ascertain with any certainty. It is commonly supposed, however, 

 that they occupy about thirty villages in Keonjur, and six or seven 

 in Pal Leyra and Hindole. 



In appearance, the Puttooas differ materially from the Ooriahs, 

 in whose neighbourhood they are found. Their stature is dimi- 

 nutive not exceeding apparently 5 ft. 2 in. the males, and 4 ft. 3 or 

 4 in. the females. Their forms are slight with very little muscular 

 development and their physique seemingly weak. There is of course, 

 a great variety of physiognomy apparent amongst them, but I 

 remarked, as a general characteristic which rarely failed, that the 

 face was broader and shorter than in the Ooriah, and that the nose 

 was flat with wide nostrils. Their colour is not darker than that of 

 the Ooriah peasant. 



The men are far from being handsome, but the palm of ugliness 

 must be awarded to the women. I must have seen altogether about 

 forty or fifty of the Puttooa women, old and young, and I did not 

 observe one who was not repulsively ugly. It was evident from 

 what we saw in the village which Major Strange and 1 visited, that 

 all the drudgery of the household devolved upon the women ; and 

 to this, and their constant exposure, may partly be attributed the 

 coarseness of feature, which distinguishes them ; they seemed to us y 

 however, to be also insufficiently fed. Their persons were generally 

 spare and emaciated, while the men, for the most part, appeared to 

 be in good condition. 



The dress of the men is the ordinary one of the native peasantry, 

 but the women wear no clothes whatsoever. Their sole covering 

 consists of two large bunches of leaves (or rather of twigs with the 

 leaves attached) of which one is worn in front and the other behind. 

 The twigs are sometimes fastened together by a strip of bark, but 

 are more generally loose, and are kept in position by a string of 

 glazed earthen-ware beads passed twenty or thirty times round the 

 waist and over the stems of the twigs. It is from this original 

 costume that the tribe have obtained from their neighbours the name 

 of Puttooa — quasi the people of the leaf They call themselves 

 Juanga. The leaves which I observed in use were those of the sal, 

 the jarnoon, the koorye, and the chaldua, but I was told that the 

 leaves of the bur, the peepul, the mhowa and the kendooa, in fact 



