Fill in the Blank: Tippani dance uses _____ tools to pound the floor.

Correct — B. Tippani is a women's folk dance from the Chorwad and Veraval area of Saurashtra, Gujarat. The dancers beat the floor with the tippani itself: long wooden sticks with a block of wood or iron at the lower end.

The tool began as a work implement for pressing lime into floors and house foundations: option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Metal rods — The shaft is wood, not metal. The block at the foot of a tippani may be iron, which makes metal rods tempting, but the sticks the dancers hold are wooden.
• (c)
  Bamboo poles — Bamboo belongs to Cheraw, Mizoram's dance performed with crossed bamboo sticks. Tippani's tool is a long wooden stick used to pound the floor.
• (d)
  Stones — No stones in the dancers' hands. Tippani dancers strike the floor with the tippani, a long wooden stick, as workers once did when pressing lime into floors.

Tippani grew out of work. The tippani was used to press lime into house foundations and floors, and workers of the Koli community turned the rhythm of that labour into a dance.

It is danced in two facing rows, the women beating the floor to folk songs. It is performed at festivals and weddings, to the turi and thali (a brass plate) with manjira, tabla, dhol and shehnai.

Key facts

• Tippani is a folk dance of the Chorwad and Veraval region of Saurashtra, Gujarat.
• It is performed by women, who beat the floor with the tippani in two facing rows.
• The tippani is made of long wooden sticks with a wooden or iron block at the lower end.
• The tool was once used to press lime into house foundations and floors.

Common traps

• Picking metal rods because the block at the foot can be iron: the sticks are wooden.
• Placing Tippani in Kutch: it belongs to Saurashtra, around Chorwad and Veraval.

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