Ceremonies (naming and marriage) [1830]

This palm-leaf manuscript gives details of immuTi naming ceremony for muttaiyaa kavuNTar of tiNTiyuur village, a marriage ceremony and the azakar koyil festival for zamindar of veLLiyangkunhRam village. It also contains the image of a paper strip which is the transcription (NO) of the palm-leaf manuscripts written by the document owner.

Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); varying sizes: height 4cm, width 47cm to height 2 cm, width 38cm; few palm-leaves are broken and few have sideline perforation. 3 handwritten palm-leaf documents (4 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): 1830.