Two Toda girls and two Toda women who sang during the researchers’ visit, stand together, wearing traditional Toda shawls: Nasham, Jayamattu, Darmanidi, .Vasamali. A small Toda boy and 2 girls stand with them, wearing Western clothing. They stand in front of a concrete Toda dogle (hut), a modern version of the traditional Toda thatch roof dogle. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Two Toda girls and two Toda women, three covering their lips as they sing, wearing traditional Toda shawls. A small Toda boy sits with them. Their song is about the temple in this village: “Don’t you think the temple will help you? For male issue, for other wishes, surely God will help you.” The singers are: Nasham, Jayamattu, Darmanidi, Vasamali, and also an interpreter. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Two Toda girls and two Toda women, three covering their lips as they sing, wearing traditional Toda shawls. A small Toda boy sits with them. Their song is about the temple in this village: “Don’t you think the temple will help you? For male issue, for other wishes, surely God will help you.” The singers are: Nasham, Jayamattu, Darmanidi, Vasamali, and also an interpreter. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Toda woman in a traditional ceremonial Toda shawl pukhoor or "pootkhul(zh)y" covering her left shoulder and arm, and choli blouse, with her child in Western pants and top. She holds a framed photograph of a Toda man in a pukhoor, perhaps being bowed down to by another person. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
A Toda woman, possibly Nashan, wears a ceremonial Toda shawl pukhoor or "pootkhul(zh)y" wrapped around her body, with her left shoulder covered, and a choli blouse. She stands in front of a stone and concrete Toda dogle (hut), a modern version of the traditional Toda thatch roof dogle. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Five Toda men sit on a grassy bank while singing. One, named Kotatu (from Kotanad), plays bamboo bhugri (a bamboo end blown trumpet with five or six holes), with one cheek bulging, which suggests he is using circular breathing. A little girl and two little boys sit in their laps. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Two Toda men wearing traditional Toda woven and embroidered textiles wrapped around the body, with both shoulders covered. They sit in front of a stone and concrete Toda dogle (hut), a modern version of the traditional Toda thatch roof dogle. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Five Toda men sit on a grassy bank. One, named Kotatu (from Kotanad), plays a bamboo bhugri (a bamboo end blown trumpet with five or six holes), with one cheek bulging, which suggests he is using circular breathing. A little girl and two little boys sit in their laps. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund).
Kotatu, a Toda man from Kotanad, plays a bhugri (a bamboo end blown trumpet with five or six holes). He is wearing a traditional ceremonial Toda shawl. He sits under a large tree in front of a stone and concrete Toda dogle (hut), a modern version of the traditional Toda thatch roof dogle. The bhugri was cracked and Kotatu had to repair it with gaffer’s tape and ash. He was not too happy with the sound. In the village of Kash Madh (Toda name), also known as Kandal Mund (outsiders’ name) within the city of Udagamandalam (also called Ooty or Ootacamund). A. A. Bake made a recording titled “Three songs with bhugri” Ootacamund (Tefi# 49.6, Tefi# 49.7, and Tefi# 49.8), dated 5/20/1938. In A. A. Bake letter #343, from Adyar, July 1, 1938, about recording Toda people, he wrote: “…it started raining and therefore [we] could not take close-ups of the bugīr which [we] thought was a sort of trumpet, but the principle was that of the flute and the sound of a trumpet" (translated by Felix van Lamsweerde). A. A. Bake was also surprised by the technique of breathing in and out at the same time, which he thought was not possible. He had seen it once before in Putturā, a man who blew a shell trumpet for long minutes, and here he saw it again with the Toda people.
