Manja and peerhi
The woven string bed carried into the courtyard by day and onto the roof at night, and the low stool beside it.
The manja, or charpai, is a wooden frame strung with rope or cotton tape, light enough for a child to carry. By day it stands in the courtyard or the sath for sitting and talking; in summer the family sleeps on manjas on the roof under the stars.
Beside it stands the peerhi, a low stool woven the same way, on which women sit to cook, spin and churn. Weaving a manja in coloured patterns was once a skill every household knew.
More dress, sayings and games
The turban, the Punjabi suit, the tehmat and the chadra, the parandi in the hair and the jutti on the feet.
The sayings that season every Punjabi conversation, and the riddles told round the fire on winter nights.
The games of the Punjabi village: girls spinning in kikli, boys at gulli-danda and pithu, and kites on every roof at Basant.
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.