Udhotur' of Cholo or Shirt of coarse cotton called 33 0 Rs. 6 15 0 Shahzad pooree cap of yellow silk and crown of red cotton. . The three first articles on the list are sewn at home, and the usual allowance is six suits in a year which cost Six Caps Four pair of Shoes Total cost of a dress annually about £ 2-11. About 4s. 6d. are sufficient to provide a poor person such as stone-cutters, silk and cotton weavers, washermen, leather cutters &c., with a suit of wearing apparel, and women of this class may be clothed for 4 or 5 shillings. A man requires : A cotton chola 12 cubits 6 annas, sewing 1 anna Cap 6 annas; or cotton turban 12 cubits long, the same valuse 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 patterns. There are some in the Palace valued at 2,000 rupees, and Meers Roostum and Ali 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 ornament (pootlo.) 1841.] Roree in Khypoor. 499 Taweez, three square amulets of gold or silver, sometimes coloured green or red, suspended round the neck by silk threads. Sookree, an oval ornament suspended round the neck and below the bosom. Zunjeeree, a double chain which is passed over the neck and across the loins and attached behind and before to oval medallions, and falls below the bosom. Chelkee, a waist chain. Dorhir, armlet of three barrel shaped ornaments like the pootlo, worn below the elbow. Banhee, long bangles of embossed gold or silver, worn from the wrist to the shoulder leaving only a small opening at the elbow joint, so that the arm is in fact cased in metal. Ivory armlets are turned on a lathe and sold by weight, and a sufficient number to reach from the wrist to the shoulder may be purchased for 25 rupees. They have a clumsy and disagreeable effect on the sable skins of the women. Moree, pointed bangle of gold or silver fastened with silk threads on the wrist. Wadolu, Mungloo, and Kungur, three kinds of bangle for the wrist. Moondree, seal rings worn on the fingers. A chain (wung) is attached to the ring on the middle finger, carried round the thumb and fastened to the bracelet. Wehr, ring worn on the fore finger of the right hand. Aeenu, Mirror ring worn on the thumb. Kuriyon, heavy silver anklets each weighing from 40 to 100 rupees.. Ghinguroon, anklet worn lelow the Kuriyon and fastened with an ornament (noora.) Paeenzeb, silver anklet worn below the ghinguroon. Ungoothee, angular medallions fastened on the toes by rings and sometimes ornamented with blue enamel. Men of the middle class wear a gold or silver finger ring with a white or red cornelian or other coloured stone, set in it. If set in gold it costs 8 or 9 rupees and 8 or 9 annas in silver. The stone costs a rupee. Boys wear a ring (walee) through the lobe of the ear; an ornament (Kewatee) in the rim of the ear; or Kungna or bracelet on the wrist, and sometimes seal rings (moondree) on the fingers. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, Wednesday Evening, THE HON'BLE SIR E. RYAN IN THE CHAIR. Mr. S. G. T. Heatly was proposed a Member by Dr. J. T. Pearson, seconded by the Secretary. Books received for the Library of the Asiatic Society, 2d June, 1841, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Nos. 37 to 40, December, 1840 to February, 1841,................... The Calcutta Monthly Journal, for April, 1841, 3d Series, No. 77, . 4 1 3 Yarrell's History of British Birds, January 1841, part 22, Cuvier, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons Tome 15, et Planches, Nos. 389 á 420,..... 3 Journal des Savants, Septembre, Oct. et Nov. 1840, 3 ... ... ... .....120,.. 1 1 8vo. ... 1 List of Mammalia, Contained in the Museum of the East India Company, (for distribution,) Pamphlets in Chinese Characters, 2 Read the Report submitted by the Officiating Curator for the month of May last already published in the body of the Journal. |