Toda priest giving blessings to a women

This photo negative shows a Toda priest giving blessings to a women near the temple premises, a boundary wall around the temple built with rocks and stones on a certain height, the Toda men wear traditional priest dress covered with blanket and their own traditional dress code, the women covers her body with cotton blanket and decorates her hair in traditional style, usually the Toda women decorates their hair style in their own traditional method on special occasions and festival occasions, the man lift his left leg and keeps on the women forehead and give blessings, whereas the women sits below the leg foot and keeps the head and hand to get the blessings, this is a usual process of Toda tribal community. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 6 cm, width 6 cm. Condition of original material: Deteriorated and discolored. Country of Origin: India. Related regions: Tamil Nadu. Related towns/cities: Nilgiri; Udhagamand.