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A sugarcane seller at Nighoj in Maharashtra, India
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The nine yard sari: nauwari, the nose ornament: nath, the red dot: kunku, and the jewellery she’s wearing around her neck: mangalsutra, are all symbolic of a rural Maharashtrian woman.
A family was selling sugarcane juice near the Nighoj potholes. It was a nice little family business that they had set up.This woman and her husband would clean the sugarcane sticks and their son would put those in a machine and squeeze the juice out, as required. We were really surprised to see no flies or any such beings around the sugarcane centre.
The woman’s dangling nath primarily caught our attention and we asked if we could take a picture. They said okay, and before we took the camera out, she was adjusting the head cover of her sari. She was wearing a traditional Maharashtrian sari called the nau-wari, that translates to nine yards. Its copious amounts of cloth, but surprisingly comfortable and designed to be suitable to do farm work or even ride a horse. Any respectable woman is supposed to have her head rightly covered, and that is what this woman was doing.
A sugarcane seller at Nighoj in Maharashtra, India
Website | tumblr | Facebook | Twitter
The nine yard sari: nauwari, the nose ornament: nath, the red dot: kunku, and the jewellery she’s wearing around her neck: mangalsutra, are all symbolic of a rural Maharashtrian woman.
A family was selling sugarcane juice near the Nighoj potholes. It was a nice little family business that they had set up.This woman and her husband would clean the sugarcane sticks and their son would put those in a machine and squeeze the juice out, as required. We were really surprised to see no flies or any such beings around the sugarcane centre.
The woman’s dangling nath primarily caught our attention and we asked if we could take a picture. They said okay, and before we took the camera out, she was adjusting the head cover of her sari. She was wearing a traditional Maharashtrian sari called the nau-wari, that translates to nine yards. Its copious amounts of cloth, but surprisingly comfortable and designed to be suitable to do farm work or even ride a horse. Any respectable woman is supposed to have her head rightly covered, and that is what this woman was doing.