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strong texture, and dye them with wild indigo and the munjattie 

 dye, making the colours fast. They also make the thick rug or coun- 

 terpaine in common with the old Kookies. Their dress consists com- 

 monly of coarse cloth tied round the waist, the end of which is 

 allowed to hang down in front, like an apron, reaching as far as the 

 knee ; in cold weather a cloth is thrown over the shoulders. Those 

 Kookies who have been much in the plains, have already taken to 

 the dhotie and mirzai. All classes bind a cloth round their heads 

 as a turban, and the more wealthy have it gaily ornamented with 

 the red downy feather of the hullee pakee bird, and red ribbons of 

 dyed goat's hair, fastening the whole down by a climstrap composed 

 of a string of cowrie shells. The Eajahs also wear a plume, con- 

 sisting of the long tail feathers of the king-crow, to the number of 

 fifty or sixty, tied in a bunch to a pointed stick or piece of iron 

 which is stuck into the large knot of hair on the back of the head, 

 many other sorts of plume consisting of feathers and goat's hair 

 are worn. The poorer classes have invariable a large iron skewer 

 or porcupine's quill stuck into the back knot, answering the double 

 purpose of a tobacco pricker and a hair pin. A knitted bag is 

 worn by most Kookies attached to a shoulder-belt of deer skin, 

 tanned with the hair on or ornamented with cowrie shells ; the dhao? 

 a short triangular piece of iron, is also worn in a broad sheath, 

 suspended by a shoulder-belt ornamented in the same manner. The 

 more wealthy having the belt four or five inches broad, with six or 

 seven rows of shells, between which are inlaid blue-beetle's wings, 

 and the poorer people contenting themselves with two rows of shells 

 on a narrow strip of leather. The sheath is further ornamented 

 with a goat's tail pendant as a tassel. The very poor dispense with 

 the sheath altogether, and carry their dhaos stuck into the cloth 

 round their waists. The dhao has a small handle of brass or wood, 

 the latter generally bound in cane or covered with leather, to which 

 is attached, a tassel of goat's hair dyed red. Garters of goat's skin 

 are worn below the knee, the beard of the goat and part of the skin 

 of the neck being chosen for this purpose. The Kookies make two 

 or three kinds of spears, one a light javelin with a long lancet-like 

 point, and a haft of about four feet in length, and another of the 

 same kind but with a pear-shaped head. The most common, however 7 



