Happy Mukherjee
The Baiga women traditionally wear a dress that consists usually of a pink coloured cloth that is tied around the waist. The cloth is then carried across the breasts over the right shoulder and then tucked at the back. The women also like to wear colourful accessories that include necklaces, bracelets, armlets, and bangles. These are usually made of colourful beads, coins, as well as silver and aluminium. Apart from this the most important component of the Baiga woman’s ensemble is the tattoos that adorn her body.
The Kutia Kondh tribe
Tribe Baiga
Geography Central India
State Madhya Pradesh
The Baigas are sometimes referred to as “the wildest of the tribes, inhabiting the most inaccessible hills and the remotest forests; living on what they can secure with their bows and arrows, in the use of which they are very skilful, and on forest produce, and the small crops which they grow on the hillside.”
