Dress, sayings and games
What Punjabis wore, the proverbs they lived by and the games they played.
The turban, the Punjabi suit, the tehmat and the chadra, the parandi in the hair and the jutti on the feet.
The games of the Punjabi village: girls spinning in kikli, boys at gulli-danda and pithu, and kites on every roof at Basant.
The sayings that season every Punjabi conversation, and the riddles told round the fire on winter nights.
From roka to doli: the rituals of a Punjabi wedding, and the songs that go with each one.
The platform under the big tree in the village square, where the men sat, talked, played cards and settled quarrels.
The pointed leather shoe of the Punjab, embroidered in gold and silver thread for weddings.
The woven string bed carried into the courtyard by day and onto the roof at night, and the low stool beside it.