write the customs of kunavaram
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they live in small houses built of mud, bamboo and thatch. The house has large open space on all the sides. Front or adjacent sides of the house are used for bamboo work and keeping the animals. Behind the huts we can see the kitchen garden. There is no electricity in this area.
Each settlement has about seven or eight huts, with the huts next to each other. There are nearly 10 such settlements on the hill top. Altogether 78 families are living here and the total population is 528. All the tribes live on the hill tops. They are all scattered in small villages. These settlements are not permanent. In case there is an epidemic or any other reason they abandon the settlement and build their houses elsewhere.
The family is very important to these tribes as all members of a family work together on the fields, while hunting or even working in the forest. While men and women together participate in all types of work, men do more work relating to cattle rearing and agriculture while women and children attend to gathering food from the forest and basket weaving.
Customs
They worship Gods of Nature and every family has got their kula devatha i.e. family God/Goddess. They post a long pole in front of the house and tie some neem twings to it. They call it as Muthalamma and worship it. Only men of the village go to forest and offer prayers to their God in the forest. The festivals too represent the changes in the season. Of the celebrations of the tribals, the Mamidi panduga (festival of mango) is the most important one. They celebrate gongura panduga in September and offer Vegetables to their diety and eat it as prasadam. Next important festival is the pachha panduga (Green festival). All major activites like agriculture, harvest, collection of fruits from the forest etc. begin after this festival. During these festivals all members of the tribe get together even if they are living in separate settlements.
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