Traditional arches battery local. Settle agriculture. Criminal tribe during British Times. Gujarat Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra.

Aravali vindhya Satpura hill areas. Mundari direct and Dravidian direct influence by Gujarati Marathi Marwadi

Tribal neighbours bhuiyas and gonds

Dark brown wavy curly hair. Little body hair. Dolichocephalic. Or platyrrhine. Retreated forehead. Broad George brown eyes medium stature. Regarded as pre Dravidian by haddon. Dravidian by risley and proto australoid by Guha.

Bil = bow

earlier Nomadic today food producing and domestication of animals. Wage earners. Cultivate maize wheat barley. Use plough hoe sickle. Catching fish by women.

Fire is sacred. Fireplace in every house.

boundary by grass bundles and rectangular buildings with raised floor made of earth and house plastic with mud and cow dung. Kitchen garden for tomatoes chillies.

Clothing coarse

Social organisation. Endogamous tribe with two exogamous moeity. Each has exogamous patrilineal totemic clans. Family is called vasilu. Patri or virilocal. Patri uxorilocal also not uncommon. authority with eldest mail. Bilateral cross cousin marriage and widow remarriage customary

Junior sororate preferred.

monogamy bi purchase exchange service intrusion and elopement. Marriage by trial.

customary rules of marriage greatly influenced by kinship terminology. All women of mother's age are called jiji and father's age are called Kaka.

Joking behaviour with elder brother's wife. Avoid girl and husband's father brother by name.

No property right to the daughter. She gets property of first husband.

Vasav is village headman. Deals with appealing gods and avoid smallpox and diseases. Representative for the government.

Territorial group up of 10 to 12 villages headed by Deshmukh which is now vanished

Animistic. Spirits and ghosts in forest jar vessel and sacrifice goats Cox and eat the animal. Contact with Hinduism. Number of diabetes on agriculture water forest. Festivals connected with ancestor cult.

Badwa is the medicine man.

Witch is subjected to torture and even killed.

Bhils 1-2