Property agreement

This palm-leaf manuscript is an agreement between immuTi kanhaka raamaiya kavuNTar and nallazaka naayakkanh, mallu naayakkanh of piLLaiyaar nattam village and viiraNa kavuNTanh and his brothers regarding the village headman (naaTTaamai) and distribution of properties. It also contains a few small strips of paper documents which are found in between the palmleaves written by the document owner describing briefly the topic of the palmleaves.

Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); varying sizes; height 4cm, width 49cm to height 3cm, width 43cm; sideline perforation; one palm-leaf was broken in the corner. 3 handwritten palm-leaf documents (3 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): tunhmuki/cittirai/03, pingkaLa/tai/19.