Married women wear thauja, a thick mangalsutra (necklace) with multiple strands of black beads, typically consisting of five or nine strands. The woman in the picture is wearing a thauja with a pendant featuring the double fish motif, symbolic of the fishing livelihood of Kolis.

Creator

• Mumbai Archive Project Team

Mitwirkende

• Ankita Jain

Publisher

• Jio Institute

Stichwort

• Koli
• Versova Koliwada
• Nath
• Nauvari
• Jewellery
• Mumbai Archive Project
• Bugadi
• Maharashtra
• Mangalsutra
• Koliwada
• Mumbai Koli Seafood Festival
• Mumbai
• Vesava Koli Mahila Samajik Sanstha

Ort

• Mumbai

Resource type

• Image

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/