干旱区生态环境知识资源中心

Bhungu a cylindrical residential house built by the traditional craftsmen of the Kachchh desert is a place of great significance. For the Kachchh decorated surface of the house and the elaborate needlework done by women present an aesthetic system where meanings are made by utilizing aspects of ’light reflected’ and ’weight filled in’. When Kachchhe people say that they ’wear a house and live in a cloth’ they are expressing their own cultural idea, utilized for analysing how meanings are made out of Kachchhe material culture, to represent the ideology of hospitality and the structural events of visiting and social exchange.