Bodo Traditional Dress

Bodo People use to weave different clothes which are given below-
1) Dokhona : "Dokhona" the main traditional dress of Bodo woman is of length 2.5 m & width 1.5 m and it is wore to cover the whole body from chest to legs by tied one round at a time in the waist. Different Agor(design or flower) and colors are weaved for Dokhona. "Matha" or "Salamatha" which is the term used for plain Dokhona i.e. Dokhona without Agor is popular among the Bodo people and used to wear in worshiping God. Among the colors yellow is the main traditional colour and "Matha" Dokhona with yellow colour is used as a bridal attire. Besides yellow they use to weave Dokhona in a variety of colours like- Gwthang(green), Gwja(red), Solay rong(violet), Neel(blue) etc. etc.

The different Agors which Bodo people used to weave Dokhona are-
I. Agor gubwi. II. Parrow megon III. Makri agor IV. Daorai mwkreb. V. Khiru agor VI. Laihagar. VII. Taigir bibar VIII. Maoji apa IX. Dokan agor X. Laosung agor.

2) Jwmgra
"Jwmgra"(Scarf) is used by Bodo woman to cover upper portion of the body and is of length 2 m & width 0.7 m. Generally the Agors use in Jwmgra is bigger than that of Dokhona and it covers large area of Jwmgra. Among the different Agors "Hajw Agor"(A design representing the mountain) is very popular and they use to wear Jwmgra with Hajw Agor in their wedding.

Jwmgra with Hajw Agor

3) Gamsa

Bodo Males in Gamsa

"Gamsa" is the male traditional dress of 1.5 m length & 1.2 m width and is used to cover the portion from waist to knee by tying it in the waist. Sometimes it is also used as a towel in bathing.It is weaved of different colours like green, slight red and mixture of different colours like- white & green, white & blue and more colours.






4) Aronai:

Bodo Male hanging Aronai on his neck

"Aronai"(small Scarf) the most beautiful cloth of Bodo people is the sign of their tradition and is used to felicitate people with honour and also in all bodo dance. In ancient age Bodo warriors used to put "Aronai" as a belt in the battle field weaved by their wives. Depending on the occasions Bodo people use to wear it in different way-in winter it is wore on neck to tie the neck, in dancing it is hanged on one side of shoulders and tie both the edge through another Aronai in the waist and in the felicitation it is simply hanged on neck.
The main Agor used in the Aronai is "Pahar Agor" or Hajw Agor" on the both edges and without it the piece of cloth weaved would not be known as Aronai. But at the middle of this Bodo women weave different Agors by their creativity.